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Article: Fabula and fictionality in narrative theory.
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- December 22, 2001
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The distinction between fabula and sujet is, according to various commonsensical definitions, the distinction between what happens in a narrative and how it is told; narrative theory, however, has struggled to reconcile common sense with conceptual rigor. The terms themselves derive from Russian Formalism, but the basic opposition they articulate is much older--it is there in the Poetics (everyone agrees that sujet corresponds to Aristotle's muthos, but whether fabula is best equated with praxis, or logos, or holos rather depends on which theorist you are reading). Numerous alternative terms have been proposed since the Formalists, too, and later in this article I shall be ...
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Encyclopedia entry: praetexta, fabula
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature;
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...praetexta, fabula, in Roman literature, a drama which derived its subject from Roman history ... reason of holding high office. (See also TOGATA .) The invention of the fabula praetexta is attributed to Naevius . Only one complete praetexta survives ...
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