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 …

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 …

'Metalepsis' is a term from classical rhetoric, but in the twentieth century, it was re-framed
more broadly as a crossing of the boundaries that separate distinct narrative worlds. This …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Much has been written about metalepsis in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: in the
nouveau roman (Herman 1997; Wagner 2011), in postmodern literature (McHale 1987), and …

Since Gérard Genette coined the term 'narrative metalepsis'(hereafter 'metalepsis') in
Figures III (Genette [1972] 1980: 234), the topic has gradually developed from a marginal …

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 …