The narratological term metalepsis describes a seemingly paradoxical transgression of
narrative or ontological levels that are perceived as mutually exclusive. While metalepsis …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In its narratological sense, metalepsis, first identified by Genette, is a deliberate
transgression between the world of the telling and the world of the told:“any intrusion by the …

While many of Gérard Genette's terms and concepts of narratology have enjoyed instant
scholarly attention, his narratological reconceptualization of the rhetorical term metalepsis in …

Metalepsis-most broadly, the interplay of situations, characters or events occupying diegetic
levels that are prima fade distinct-has been discussed at length by students of the byzantine …

Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) claims that human beings can only understand
abstract, complex phenomena by metaphorizing them in terms of concrete, more basic …