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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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The permeable reader: queer metalepsis and the novels of Barbara Trapido

Textual Practice
This article considers how contemporary women’s writing manipulates the novel form in order to represent reading and its effects. I propose that specific novels represent a potential permeability of readers – a latent capacity for an ambiguous yet ...
Sophie Coser
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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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Metalepsis Drifts: for a Figurative Reading of Conspiracy Narratives. The Example of Umberto Eco and the Conspiracy Machine

Argumentation et Analyse du Discours
Many experts on conspiracy theory reduce the phenomenon to its rational, cognitive dimension. 1Yet the aesthetic dimension and narrative pleasure are obvious in conspiracist discourse, whose rhetoric closely follows the codes of popular fiction.
Julien Cueille
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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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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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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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Ontological Metalepsis and Unnatural Narratology

Journal of Narrative Theory, 2012
In 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, Jan Alber
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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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METALEPSIS IN THE ILIAD

The Classical Review, 2023
Bill Beck
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