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This is a review of the panel “Metalepsis out of Bounds” presented at the 2013 ENN conference. The three convenors proposed complementary remarks to the extent that they either questioned the conceptualization, examined the functioning of metalepsis or ...
Saartje Gobyn, Liviu Lutas
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Metalepsis in Autobiographical Narrative
How do fictional tactics operate in what is often simplistically termed the “factual” or referential world of autobiographical discourse? Many narratologists view the rhetorical figure of metalepsis as distinctive to metafictional texts and constitutive ...
Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson
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The reader and the narrative metalepsis in the novel 'The Attic' by Danilo Kiš [PDF]
As a writer who read and followed the contemporary literature and literary theory in several different languages and who intensively contemplated the act of reading and thematised it in his belletristic prose, Kiš had already problematised in his novel ...
Bečejski Mirjana M.
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Narrative Metalepsis in Persian Stories [PDF]
This study aimed at defining and classifying types of metalepsis, and analyzing its status in Persian stories. Narrative metalepsis refers to the combination of various narrative levels, whereby the author could descend to the story level and communicate
Ghodrat Ghasemipour
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This article looks at second-person metalepsis in two texts from Spanish-American literature: it proposes the study of some cases where the narrator addresses the character in Mario Vargas Llosa's El Paraíso en la otra esquina and also examines the ...
Lucile Magnin
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The reader with 'a lamp at the crossroads': Kiš's concepts of the reader and Kiš as the reader [PDF]
Pictured as an introduction into the study of the same name due to be published in the book Some Real And Possible Worlds, this paper focuses on Kiš as the reader of the works of others and his own works, as well as on the types of readers in his ...
Bečejski Mirjana M.
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Les usages de la métalepse d’auteur dans Partonopeu de Blois et Le Bel Inconnu
This article will investigate the extent to which the use of authorial metalepsis, theorized by Gérard Genette, highlights, in Le Roman de Partonopeu de Blois and Le Bel Inconnu, the functions of a participatory author whose active involvement reveals ...
Nathalie Leclercq
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“Fourth‐wall breakiness or whatevs”: Presumed self‐awareness in American superhero comics
Abstract Studies on reflexivity in the field of comics studies have been scarce and, more often than not, disconnected from each other, which has resulted in overlapping, and sometimes even contradicting, classifications of reflexive devices. Therefore, this article analyzes different instances of self‐awareness in American superhero comics, as it has ...
Lucía Bausela Buccianti
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Literalising Metaphor in the Poetry of Robert Southwell☆
Abstract This article focuses on a distinctive feature of Robert Southwell's poetic technique, namely, his approach to metaphor. I argue that a number of Southwell's metaphors have a surprisingly literal quality where their vehicles are given greater prominence than their tenors.
Conor McKee
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Even before I heard about this celebration of Elaine Freedgood's work and mentorship, I was already thinking about how I'd come to know her and about the numerous ways she has shaped my writing and my writing life. This reflection was prompted, inadvertently, by Elaine herself.
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