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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The paper aims to revitalise Gérard Genette's literary term of 'metalepsis' within a cinematic
context, emphasising the expression's creative potentials for both analytical and creative …

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