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RE: my final word on analepsis
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> Subject: my final word on analepsis
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> from
> http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~felluga/guidesf.html#analepsis
>
> Analepsis and Prolepsis:
>
> Analepsis is the narratological term for what is more commonly called
> "flashback." It is thus one way in which a narrative's discourse
> re-order's a
> given story. The corresponding term is prolepsis, which refers to those
> instances when a later event in a narrative is presented before it has
> actually happened in the story. The classic example is prophecy, as when
> Oedipus is told that he will sleep with his mother and kill his
> father. As we
> learn later in Sophocles' play, he does both despite his efforts
> to evade his
> fate. Another good example is the first scene of La Jetée. As we
> learn a few
> minutes later, what we are seeing in that scene is a flashback to
> the past,
> since the present of the film's diegesis is a time directly
> following World
> War III. However, as we learn at the very end of the film, that
> scene also
> doubles as a prolepsis, since the dying man the boy is seeing is,
> in fact,
> himself. In other words, he is proleptically seeing his own
> death. We thus
> have an analepsis and prolepsis in the very same scene.
>
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