Focalisation

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In narratology, focalisation is the perspective through which a narrative is presented, as opposed to an omniscient narrator.^[1] Coined by French narrative theorist Gérard Genette, his definition distinguishes between internal focalisation (first-person) and external focalisation (third-person, fixed on the actions of and environments around a character), with zero focalisation representing an omnisicent narrator.^[2] Homodiegetic narrators exist in the same (hence the prefix 'homo') storyworld as the characters exist in, whereas heterodiegetic narrators are not a part of that storyworld. The term 'focalisation' refers to how information is restricted in storytelling.^[3]