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Poeta Necans: The Metalepsis of Killing a Character in Diachronic Perspective

Narrative
:This essay traces expressions in which authors or narrators claim to or are said to kill a character, with the key question as to which ideas about storytelling the cases convey and how these ideas resemble or differ across different periods.
Thomas Kuhn-Treichel
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‘You Felt Disembodied’: Reconfiguring Vulnerabilities Through Metalepsis in Harry Parker’s Anatomy of a Soldier

, 2021
Harry Parker’s first novel, Anatomy of a Soldier (2016), is a trauma narrative intermingling several timelines and told from the perspectives of forty-four object-narrators.
Katia Marcellin
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Meaning, Metalepsis, Time-Travel

Res Philosophica
This article explores how people can come to experience constitutional conversations as meaningful. To this end, I reinterpret Habermas’s account of deliberative constitutionalism.
Glenn Mackin
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War from the Margins: Metalepsis and Metonymy in Pat Barker’s Toby’s Room and Sarah Waters’s The Night Watch

Études anglaises
Dans leurs romans de guerre historiques, Toby’s Room et The Night Watch, Pat Barker et Sarah Waters posent la question de la fidélité de la représentation.
Katia Marcellin
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General Bibliography on Metalepsis

2011
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Metalepsis and Historical Temporalities: A Contribution to Diachronic Narratology

Narrative
:This article offers a novel historical conception of metalepsis—a narrative device defined as the deliberate transgression of the boundary between the world of the telling and the world of the told.
J. Merrill
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Anachronism as a Form of Metalepsis in Ancient Greek Literature

Metalepsis, 2020
This chapter discusses anachronism as a form of metalepsis and different ways of understanding anachronism in the ancient and modern worlds. The chapter begins by highlighting potential complexities in applying Genette’s model of metalepsis to ancient ...
Peter Bing
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“These are the last things, she wrote”: Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things , Metalepsis and the Problem of Witness

Revue Francaise d'Etudes Americaines
Cet article analyse les premiers mots du roman de Paul Auster publié en 1987, In the Country of Last Things , en accordant une attention particulière à la toute première phrase : « Ce sont les dernières choses, a-t‑elle écrit.
James Peacock
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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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