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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. Narratologists have developed a fine-grained typology
Jessica Merrill
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