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David Hering
circumscription
(en)
the act of circumscribing or something that circumscribes (constrict range of activity, draw a line or boundary around)
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a certain circumscription of example
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a certain circumscription of example
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palimpsest
(en)
a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain
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a palimpsest compositional history of the fiction
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a palimpsest compositional history of the fiction
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mise-en-abyme
(fr)
term derived from heraldry; means "placed into abyss"
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within the formal model of mise-en-abyme
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within the formal model of mise-en-abyme
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ab ovo
(la)
from the very beginning; from the egg
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began ab ovo to flag up
quoting Hannah Sullivan?
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began ab ovo to flag up
quoting Hannah Sullivan?
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imbricated
(en)
arranged (scales, sepals, plates, etc.) so that they overlap like roof tiles
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through an imbricated analysis of an early draft
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through an imbricated analysis of an early draft
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apophrades
(en)
a term defined by literary critic Harold Bloom as "return of the dead"; the author is encumbered by his previous state of solitude and holds his work open for inspection with that of his predecessors
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Apophrades, whereby 'the mighty dead return, but they return in our colours, and speaking in our voices'
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Apophrades, whereby 'the mighty dead return, but they return in our colours, and speaking in our voices'
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annunciation
(en)
an act or instance of announcing; proclamation
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verge-of-annunciation climax
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verge-of-annunciation climax
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heterodiegetic
(en)
in film studies and narratology, descriptive of a narrator that does not take part in the plot
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describes Mark from Westward in GCH
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describes Mark from Westward in GCH
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metaleptic
(en)
(from Greek) a figure of speech in which a word or a phrase from figurative speech is used in a new context
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deliberately ambiguous metaleptic shifts in narration
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deliberately ambiguous metaleptic shifts in narration
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diegetic
(en)
the telling of a story by a narrator who summarizes events in the plot and comments on the conversations, thoughts, etc., of the characters
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narrator of uncertain diegetic status
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narrator of uncertain diegetic status
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