Media Studies A-Level
Disruption and repair
What Disruption and repair means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The breaking of the initial equilibrium and the attempt to repair it, stages that many texts begin mid-way through or leave unresolved.
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Related terms
- Conformity and departure from structure
- Equilibrium
- Narrative structure
- Todorov's equilibrium model
- Todorov's narratology
- New equilibrium
- Textual evidence for narrative stages
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