Metalepsis and Historical Temporalities: A Contribution to Diachronic Narratology

This article offers a novel historical conception of metalepsis—a narrative device defined as the deliberate transgression of the boundary between the world of the telling and the world of the told. Narratologists have developed a fine-grained typology of metalepsis, in which types are seen as resul...

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Published in:Narrative (Columbus, Ohio) Ohio), 2026, Vol.34 (1), p.20-43
Main Author: Merrill, Jessica
Format: Article
Language:English
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