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Metalepsis is a term originated in ancient legal discourse and integrated into narrative theory by Gérard Genette to describe crossovers between narrative levels. Defined as “any intrusion by the extradiegetic narrator or narratee into the diegetic universe (or by the diegetic characters into a metadiegetic universe, etc.) or the inverse” by Genette ...
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Metalepsis and Playing with Functions of Literary Texts in Bratoljub Klaić’s Spoofs
In its narratological sense, metalepsis is a paradoxical contamination between the world of the telling and the world of the told (Genette). Metalepsis has also been characterized as that which undermines the separation between narration and story.
Kornelija Kuvač-Levačić
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Gabriel Josipovici’s latest fiction is varied, ranging from parody, light comic fiction, in Only Joking and Making Mistakes, to more serious, ontological and personal concerns.
Dominique Pernot
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A Theory of Impossible Worlds (Metalepsis)
The purpose of this work is threefold: First, to develop a textual model of literary genres based on generic categories, natural and elemental, capable of being applied to all literary texts, existing or imaginable; second, to attempt to explain the ...
Alfonso Martín-Jiménez
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Cultures of denial: managing the past, justifying the present [PDF]
In this paper, I propose that if dominant white understandings of colonisation rely upon a relatively linear interpretation of history, then the unsettling of this linearity may allow for the voicing of a critical reading of racism in Australia. In order
Riggs, D.
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Reflections on the Pragmatics of the Illustrated Perspective Treatise : Performative Failures and (Pre-) Romantic Innovations [PDF]
This essay reconsiders visual demonstrations contained in a selection of illustrated perspective treatises. Based on a fundamental distinction made in the field of pragmatics, the author argues that the images designed to demonstrate/
Ralickas, Eduardo
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From a functional point of view, metalepsis can be defined as the shift of a figure within a text (usually a character or a narrator) from one narrative level to another, marking a trangression of ontological borders. This procedure makes the reader or addressee aware of the fictional status of a text and ensures the maintenance of a specifically ...
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Introduction: The persistence of Kafka in a metamorphosing world
The German Quarterly, Volume 97, Issue 4, Page 522-525, Fall 2024.
Imke Meyer
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Playing with Identity. Authors, Narrators, Avatars, and Players in The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide [PDF]
This article offers a comparative analysis of Davey Wreden’s The Stanley Parable (Wreden 2011 / Galactic Cafe 2013) and The Beginner’s Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd.
Backe, Hans-Joachim, Thon, Jan-Noël
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Mundos imposibles: autoficción
En este artículo se tratan de explicar la autoficción (que se produce en las obras literarias en las que el autor real experimenta sucesos ficticios, ya sean verosímiles o inverosímiles) como una ruptura de la lógica ficcional (metalepsis), con la ...
Alfonso Martín Jiménez
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