Mediacy and Narrative Mediation // Jan Alber & Monika Fludernik
[1]1 Definition [2] The term “mediacy” was coined by Stanzel ([Stanzel, Franz K. ([1955] 1971). Narrative Situations in the Novel: Tom Jones, Moby-Dick, The Ambassadors, Ulysses. Bloomington: Indiana UP.1955] 1971: 6) and describes the fact that the story is mediated by the narrator’s discourse in one of two ways. Either the story is openly transmitted through a narrator..