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Metalepsis

2020
‘Metalepsis’ is a classical term. Ancient critics, however, only used it within the confines of rhetoric and stylistics to describe certain usages akin to metaphor and metonymy. In the twentieth century, metalepsis was then reframed much more broadly as a crossing of the boundaries that separate distinct narrative worlds.
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Metalepsis and Allegory

2020
Jonathan Morton, Marco Nievergelt
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Secondary Metalepsis?

2020
This analysis of metalepsis in the Expositio Virgilianae Continentiae, an allegorical exposition of Virgil’s Aeneid by the sixth-century Christian Fulgentius, enables the formulation of a new critical concept, ‘secondary metalepsis’. In this phenomenon, the diegetic levels of author, narrator, and narrative are blurred not by the same author but by ...
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Metalepsis and Metaphysics

2020
This chapter examines the narratological concept of metalepsis in relation to metaphysical texts, investigating how competing metaphysical assumptions affect the ways in which metalepsis is thought to operate in relation to empirical experience. It takes as a major point of reference Christopher Nolan’s 2010 movie Inception, in which three distinct ...
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Heuristic Medicine: The Methodists and Metalepsis

Isis, 2015
In the first century B.C.E., a group of Greek physicians called the Methodists denied that medicine could be based on such "hidden causes" as humors, atoms, or elements. They argued that the inner workings of the body were ultimately unknowable, existing beyond the limits of human knowledge and inference.
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Introduction: Metalepsis as Ethics

2017
This chapter proposes to read Coetzee’s self-reflexivity as an ethics of writing. Coetzee deliberately undermines his own authority, and he does this to the effect of handing over to the reader the task of making judgments. Self-reflexivity, especially in the form of metalepsis, is shown to be the opposite of what it is often taken to be, that is, a ...
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Metonymic indeterminacy and metalepsis

Figurative Thought and Language, 2021
Rita Brdar-Szabó   +2 more
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