The transgression of different—and ontologically distinct—levels of narration, the crossing—
often fantastic—of the boundary between different fictional worlds within the common frame …

When Gérard Genette coyly states that “I fear I am […] a bit responsible for annexing to the
field of narratology a concept which originally belonged to the field of rhetoric”(Genette …

The emergence of metalepsis as a concept of narrative theory in the context of structuralist
poetics is not a coincidence, nor is the occurrence of the phenomenon we now characterize …

Who would have thought such a small digression, proposed over thirty years ago, would
become the subject of so much debate? Gérard Genette introduced many notions in Figures …

The story behind this volume is one of lively scholarly exchange and great enthusiasm for a
phenomenon which seems to pervade Western popular culture: metalepsis. It began at the …

Metalepses in the different arts and media are based on different medial circumstances.
Thus, the details of the definition of the term “metalepsis” can vary from one medium to …

" When a work of art shows an interest in its own status as a work of art--either by reference
to itself or to other works--we have become accustomed to calling this move" meta." While …

Reflexive cinema-a cinema about movies and movie-makers-must be understood in both its
traditional and modernist contexts. In the orthodoxy of the traditional cinema, of which we …

After a short explication of the transmedial term 'metalepsis' as a paradoxical and, apart from
some exceptions in performative arts, strictly artefact-internal phenomenon, this paper will …

It can be found in classics of experimental literature such as Laurence Sterne's Tristram
Shandy or the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, but also in the horror and fantasy fiction of …