This paper is concerned with the ways in which narratives across media'stage'illusion, both
in the sense of creating illusion as an immersive strategy, and in the subversive sense of …

This article argues that interactional metalepsis is a device that is inherently built into
ergodic digital fiction and thus that ergodic digital fiction is necessarily unnatural. Offering a …

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 …

Narrative metalepsis is a concept stemming from narratology. That is why its use is
sometimes restricted to the field of literature. Indeed, because of its close connection to the …

The recent decade brought increasing interest in metareferentiality in video games. The
article builds upon the body of research regarding metaleptic transgression in games by …

This article proposes to assess and compare the capacities of unnatural and cognitive
narratology in dealing with the theoretical and interpretive challenges posed by digital …

This paper will examine three contemporary video games–Undertale, The magic circle and
Pony Island–with an eye towards delineating the ways in which their unique storyworlds and …

This chapter offers a possible-worlds approach to metalepsis (Bell and Alber 2012) and,
through its application to digital fiction, profiles a transmedial approach to this narratological …

In the past few years there have been a number of theories emerge in media, film, television,
narrative and game studies that detail the rise of what has been variously described as …

This article explores a highly striking phenomenon termed metalepsis. A metalepsis is a
fictional and paradoxical transgression of the border between mutually exclusive worlds that …