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Metalepsis and Stevens’ Abstraction

Style, 2022
Weina Fan
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For the Most Part Serious? The Comic Potential of Authorial Metalepsis from Aristophanes to Lucian

Mnemosyne, 2023
Scholarship has drawn a contrast between modern uses of metalepsis (illogical transgressions of narrative levels), which are frequently assigned comic effects, and their ancient counterparts, which are deemed more serious.
Thomas Kuhn-Treichel
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Materiality and metalepsis in handmade small press alternative comics

Studies in Comics, 2023
This article reconsiders the narratological theory of metalepsis in comics through a discussion of handmade small press publications. I will argue that material and formal elements can collapse categories through which metalepsis is theorized.
Gareth Brookes
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Exploring Contemporary Jewish Identity and Anti-Semitism via Metalepsis in Howard Jacobson’s Shylock Is My Name (2016)

Shakespeare, 2022
Given that many of the critically acclaimed works from his canon extensively (and comically) explore Jewish identity, it is no surprise that the Hogarth Press selected Howard Jacobson to write a contemporary adaptation of The Merchant of Venice for the ...
C. Martin
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Eating Up the Plot: “Ontological Metalepsis” in Apuleius’s Tales of Aristomenes and Diophanes

TAPA, 2022
summary:Though critics of Apuleius’s Metamorphoses have long recognized how inset tales can reverberate in the larger narrative structure in interesting ways, they have overlooked how the direction of influence is often reversed.
J. Ulrich
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Book review: Metalepsis in Animation: Paradoxical Transgressions of Ontological Levels

Animation, 2022
Erwin Feyersinger’s Metalepsis in Animation investigates a term that has been traditionally associated with the literary arts, offering a fascinating and compelling account of its central role in animation history.
Nicholas A. Miller
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Dream weaving and sonic metalepsis in Jan Troell’s Land of Dreams

Journal of Scandinavian Cinema, 2021
Jan Troell’s Sagolandet (Land of Dreams) (1988) presents itself as a documentary about 1980s Swedish society, but is also a film about filmmaking, the imagination, memory and autobiography.
Alexis Luko
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Reader, the violence they did’: Employing Metalepsis Towards a Collective Narrative in the Historical Novel

The Journal of Historical Fictions
By its own conventions, the historical novel as genre has been saddled with a somewhat Herculean task: it is expected to portray the spirit of the epoch which it addresses and represent the social, cultural, and political conditions of its age all while ...
Katie Brandt Sartain
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Los procedimientos teóricos ficcionales y la metalepsis narrativa en el cuento «Las babas del diablo» de Julio Cortázar

ACTIO NOVA Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada
The text analyzes narrative metalepsis in "Las babas del diablo" as a disruption of the boundaries between narrative levels. Based on the concept proposed by Lang, Grabe, and Meyer-Minnemann (2006), two types of metalepsis are identified: vertical ...
Ián Ranera Rodríguez
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Feeling Fictional: Metalepsis, Caprice, and the Uncanny in E. T. A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman"

Narrative
:The transgression of the boundary between narrative levels—metalepsis—is frequently understood in terms of narrators entering the diegesis, but it can also describe a seeming impossibility: the movement of a character into the author's world. This essay
Dwight Codr
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