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 …

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 the decades since Gérard Genette coined the term, narrative metalepsis has generally
been understood as a merging of diegetic levels, a narrative phenomenon that destabilizes …

Towards the end of Grant Morrison's comics series Animal Man, things come to a head
between the superheroes and the crazed villain Overman. Readers see two men with …

Narratology is a thriving discipline which has contributed many concepts and technical terms
to literary studies, and, furthermore, is a discipline that deals with one of the most …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …