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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Digital technology has allowed narrative experimentation to expand beyond the page and
into an entire network of linked media. Hypertext provides a structure within which chunks of …

Ungrounding fictional worlds : an enactivist perspective on the “worldlikeness” of fiction
Universiteit Gent Add publications and datasets Lists Sign in Academic Bibliography Search …

In the present essay, I propose to explore some of the theoretical implications of the use of
the concept of possible world (hence PW) in literary semantics by placing this concept within …

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 …

The notion of possible worlds has played a decisive role in postclassical narratology by
awakening interest in the nature of fictionality and in emphasizing the notion of world as a …

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 …