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Interactional Metalepsis and Unnatural Narratology [PDF]
Narrative, 2016 This article argues that interactional metalepsis is a device that is inherently built into ergodic digital fiction and thus that ergodic digital fiction is necessarily unnatural.
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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’ 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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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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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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Ontological Metalepsis and Unnatural Narratology
JNT-Journal of Narrative Theory, 2012In this article, we focus on ontological metalepses that involve represented transgressions of world boundaries as one manifestation of the unnatural. We first discriminate between ascending, descending, and horizontal metaleptic jumps a three types of unnatural metalepses, or, more specifically, metalepses physically or logically impossible (Alber 80)
Alice Bell
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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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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, 2015In 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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