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 …

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 …

When Gérard Genette coyly states that “I fear I am […] a bit responsible for annexing to the
field of narratology a concept which originally belonged to the field of rhetoric”(Genette …

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 …

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 …

How would we react if a fictional character just disappeared from the book we are reading?
We most certainly would be shocked, since our Western episteme ascribes such events to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …