Metalepsis

About: Metalepsis is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 171 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1225 citations. The topic is also known as: metalepsis.

Lucan/The Word at War

Abstract: there is a word — which bears a sword — can pierce an armed manit hurls its barbed syllables — and is mute againwhere it fell — the saved will tell — on patriotic daysome epauletted brother — gave his breath awayDickinson (c. 1858)your gaze scans the streets as if they were written pages:the city says everything you must think,makes you repeat her discourse,and while you believe you are visiting Tarnarayou are only recording the names with which she defines herself and all her partsCalvino (1979)1.1. Since ‘World War War 2’ the study of Lucan's rhetoric has made successful, if sporadic and contested, advances on many fronts; much remains to be done for his poetic. It is likely that the ‘unassuming’ exegetical form of attention traditionally represented in classical scholarship by the former has favoured its development: you may identify a crazy (ab)use of, say, metalepsis without committing yourself to a particular valuation of a text; whereas the axiomatically enthusiastic valuation embodied in the study of poetics must soon come hard up against the trench-lines of hierarchies of sensibility and taste. Just how good is Lucan — I mean, as ‘a poet’? The often unspoken gloss is nearly always the (sub)agenda (The answer is, still: ‘Quite good: Silver.’). Those who have steadied their sights have made out a poet's design, a fight to achieve a strong identity over against his inheritance, working through and against the traditional battery of schemata.

Metalepsis in Popular Culture

Abstract: Metalepsis refers to the crossing of boundaries between fiction and reality in narratives. This volume provides a systematic overview of metalepsis, its types and effects, in popular culture. The contributions discuss popular fiction, fan fiction, pop lyrics, comics, films, animated cartoons, music videos, live performances and TV series from the turn of the 20th century to the present day. "Metalepsis in Popular Culture" introduces the rhetorical concept of metalepsis and applies it to contemporary popular culture, thereby demonstrating its importance for the negotiation of fact and fiction in our cultural world.

Renaissance figures of speech

Abstract: Introduction: the figures in Renaissance theory and practice Sylvia Adamson, Gavin Alexander and Katrin Ettenhuber 1. Synonymia: or, in other words Sylvia Adamson 2. Compar or Parison: measure for measure Russ McDonald 3. Periodos: squaring the circle Janel Mueller 4. Puns: serious wordplay Sophie Read 5. Prosopopoeia: the speaking figure Gavin Alexander 6. Ekphrasis: painting in words Claire Preston 7. Hysteron proteron, or the preposterous Patricia Parker 8. Paradiastole: redescribing the vices as virtues Quentin Skinner 9. Syncrisis: the figure of contestation Ian Donaldson 10. Testimony: the artless proof R. W. Serjeantson 11. Hyperbole: exceeding similitude Katrin Ettenhuber 12. Metalepsis: the boundaries of metaphor Brian Cummings 13. The vices of style William Poole.

Ontological Metalepsis and Unnatural Narratology

Abstract: In this article, we focus on ontological metalepses that involve represented transgressions of world boundaries as one manifestation of the unnatural. We first discriminate between ascending, descending, and horizontal metaleptic jumps a three types of unnatural metalepses, or, more specifically, metalepses physically or logically impossible (Alber 80) and, in a second step, try to determine their potential functions. We also propose a new cognitive model that modifies Gerard Genette's structuralist model to conceptualize ontological metaleptic jumps as (1) vertical interactions either between the actual world and a storyworld or between nested storyworlds, or as (2) horizontal transmigrations between storyworlds.2 We argue that our postclassical method offers a more effective way of analyzing metalepsis because it allows us to describe the nature of ontological metalepsis more accurately and also because it embraces interpretation. We place this article on the overlap between unnatural narratology and transmedial narratology insofar as we analyze ontological metalepsis, an unnatural phenomenon, in both print and Storyspace hypertext fiction.