Scene shift, metalepsis, and the metaleptic mode.(Critical Essay)

From: Style | Date: December 22, 2003| Author: Fludernik, Monika | Copyright information

Starting out with Gerard Genette's classic passages about metalepsis, the article distinguishes between five different types of metalepsis in Genette's Narrative Discourse. Section 2 then concentrates on one particular type of metalepsis which Marie-Laure Ryan has recently dubbed "rhetorical" metalepsis. The paper therefore does not treat the most commonly known type of metalepsis, ontological metalepsis. By focusing on one particular context in which rhetorical metalepses occur with some r...

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