Dictionary

intradiegetic en · ADJ

Etymology

From intra- + diegetic.

Meanings

1. Part of the narrative.
   • One of the most famous examples of an intradiegetic narrator is Scherezade, the narrator of the tales in Arabian Nights (1954), who does belong in the general narrative frame despite that not involving her own but other people's stories. 2010, Nina Nørgaard, Beatrix Busse, & Rocío Montoro, Key Terms in Stylistics, Continuum, published 2010, →ISBN, page 125:
   • One well-known example of an intradiegetic narrator is Marlow in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, who recounts his African adventures to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary. 2014, Susanne Klinger, Translation and Linguistic Hybridity: Constructing World-View, Routledge, published 2014, →ISBN:
   • Intradiegetic music continues to be used to very stirring effect throughout the film, especially a solo performance of the sixties folk hymn “Five Hundred Miles” sung by Croxen's daughter, […] 2011, Thomas Waugh, The Right to Play Oneself: Looking Back on Documentary Film, University of Minnesota Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 169:

Forms

Antonyms

Doylist · extradiegetic · out-of-universe

Synonyms

diegetic · Watsonian · in-universe

Translations (5)

fi tarinansisäinen (Part of the narrative.) · fr intradiégétique (Part of the narrative.) · de intradiegetisch (Part of the narrative.) · fi intradiegeettinen (Part of the narrative.) · es intradiegético (Part of the narrative.)