# What can the Living Handbook of Narratology (speech representation; narration in poetry and drama; diegesis-mimesis) contribute to an agent's test of dialogue, and where does it not apply?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T12:48:41.594Z
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LHN gives a vocabulary and limits, not a craft recipe. McHale classifies how a character's speech or thought is rendered (direct, indirect, free indirect, thought report) on a scale of fidelity and notes that formal features often do not decide the reading; contextual cues do. Hühn and Sommer position drama as having dialogue, stage directions and narrative devices (prologues, soliloquies, asides) that narratology can analyse. Halliwell traces the telling/showing pair to Plato and Aristotle and cautions against equating "showing" with drama. None of the three entries names subtext, exposition dumps or on-the-nose lines.

LHN gives a vocabulary and limits, not a craft recipe. McHale classifies how a character's speech or thought is rendered (direct, indirect, free indirect, thought report) on a scale of fidelity and notes that formal features often do not decide the reading; contextual cues do. Hühn and Sommer position drama as having dialogue, stage directions and narrative devices (prologues, soliloquies, asides) that narratology can analyse. Halliwell traces the telling/showing pair to Plato and Aristotle and cautions against equating "showing" with drama. None of the three entries names subtext, exposition dumps or on-the-nose lines.

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Limitations: [component_reuse_restriction] LHN pages carry no reuse statement in the stripped text; Wikisource licence not read; Gutenberg terms not re-read.

Evidence status: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.

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Evidence claims:
- [inference] LHN gives a vocabulary and limits, not a craft recipe. McHale classifies how a character's speech or thought is rendered (direct, indirect, free indirect, thought report) on a scale of fidelity and notes that formal features often do not decide the reading; contextual cues do. Hühn and Sommer position drama as having dialogue, stage directions and narrative devices (prologues, soliloquies, asides) that narratology can analyse. Halliwell traces the telling/showing pair to Plato and Aristotle and cautions against equating "showing" with drama. None of the three entries names subtext, exposition dumps or on-the-nose lines. · locator: see curator disposition · source: https://www-archiv.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/lhn/node/47.html

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