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When Storyworlds Collide - Metalepsis in Popular Fiction, Film and Comics (Paperback)
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When Storyworlds Collide - Metalepsis in Popular Fiction, Film and Comics (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Intermediality, 7
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One can find it in the 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 Stephen
King, in Mel Brooks's spoof films and Grant Morrison's superhero
comics. The talk is of metalepsis, the transgression of narrative
levels. While this device was long perceived as a narratological
oddity reserved for avant-garde texts, it has recently emerged as a
phenomenon of much wider bearing that exists in numerous media and
in popular as well as high culture. When Storyworlds Collide wishes
to do justice to this situation and offers both a refined model for
the analysis of metalepsis across media and a detailed
investigation of the uses and functions of metalepsis in popular
culture, thus providing a valuable addition to the burgeoning field
of post-classical and transmedial narrative theory. Starting from a
thorough reevaluation of the concept of metalepsis as it is
discussed both in classical narratology and more recent endeavours,
this book puts forth a deceptively simple yet flexible definition
and typology of this device, centred on the violation of the border
separating the inside and outside of a storyworld and designed to
be transmedially applicable. In a second step, this model is put to
the test through an analysis of a wide range of metaleptic
narratives drawn from popular fiction, film, and comics. When
Storyworlds Collide takes popular culture seriously, employing it
neither to merely exemplify theory nor to demonstrate that it is
ultimately a knockoff of high culture. Rather, it shows that
metalepsis possesses a unique dynamics in popular storytelling and
has become an essential device for pop-cultural self-reflection -
while still retaining an immense potential to create amusing and
entertaining narratives. This book will be relevant to students and
scholars from a wide variety of fields: narrative theory,
intermediality and media studies, popular culture as well as
literary, film and comics studies.
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