in the story. e.g. Homer's The Odyssey Homo-diegetic: the narrator is a character in the story. e.g. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights Mood Genette said narrative mood is dependent on the 'distance' and 'perspective' of the narrator, and like music, narrative mood has predominant patterns. It is related to voice. Distance of the narrator changes with narrated speech, transposed speech and reported speech. Perspective of the narrator is called focalization. Narratives can be non-focalized, internally focalized or externally focalized. Decorations Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (2016) Selected works Figures I-III, 1967-70 (eleven selected essays from Figures I-III translated as Figures of Literary Discourse, 1982; selections of Figures III on narratology translated as Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method, 1980). Mimologiques: voyage en Cratylie, 1976 (translated as Mimologics, 1995). Introduction à l'architexte, 1979. Palimpsestes: La littérature au second degré, 1982. (Palimpsests: literature in the second degree) Nouveau discours du récit, 1983 (translated as Narrative Discourse Revisited, 1988). Seuils, 1987. (translated as Paratexts. Thresholds of interpretation, 1997) Fiction et diction, 1991. L'Œuvre de l'art, 1: Immanence et transcendence, 1994. L'Œuvre de l'art, 2: La relation esthétique, 1997. Figures IV, 1999. Figures V, 2002. Métalepse: De la figure à la fiction, 2004. Bardadrac, 2006. Discours du récit, Paris, Le Seuil, 2007. Codicille, Paris, Le Seuil, 2009. Apostille, Paris, Le Seuil, 2012. Épilogue, Paris, Le Seuil, 2014. Postscript, Paris, Le Seuil, 2016. See also Hypertext (semiotics) Hypotext Narrativity References 1930 births 2018 deaths Writers from Paris École Normale Supérieure alumni Lycée Lakanal alumni Structuralists French literary critics Trope theorists French male writers Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres