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Focalization (Point of View) As readers, when we look at a story, we instinctively pay more attention to the events and characters in the text, but do not care as much for who is telling the story (when the text is not first-person narrated), and even less for the perspectives from which we access it. We often talk about a narrator or a ...
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1 Νοε 2023 · Focalization, as a theoretical term in literature and narrative studies, refers to the specific point of view or perspective through which a story is presented to the reader.
1. Also called: principal focus, focus. the point on the axis of a lens or mirror to which parallel rays of light converge or from which they appear to diverge after refraction or reflection. 2. a central point of attention or interest. Collins English Dictionary.
In creative writing, focalization refers to the point of view or narrative perspective through which the story is filtered. This perspective determines what the reader can see, hear, understand, and experience in the story.
The term used in modern narratology for ‘point of view’; that is, for the kind of perspective from which the events of a story are witnessed. Events observed by a traditional omniscient narrator are said to be non‐focalized, whereas events witnessed within the story's world from the constrained perspective of a single character are ...
1. : focus sense 4a. 2. : focus sense 1a. Examples of focal point in a Sentence. This port was the focal point of trade two centuries ago. Recent Examples on the Web. These examples are automatically compiled from online sources to illustrate current usage. Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
31 Ιαν 2018 · Knowing how to manipulate narrative focalization gives you, the author, great control of exposition. In other words, it allows you to control the flow of information that reaches the reader, both in terms of quantity (how much the reader gets to know) and quality (what kind of information reaches the reader).
