2020. Hardcover. Binding tight. Pages appear clean, unmarked. Covers, corners, DJ and page edges have only minor shelf wear. Very good condition.
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 modern notion of metalepsis, introduced
by Gerard Genette, has so far largely been theorized on the basis of
examples from post-modern novels and films. Yet metalepsis has a much
greater potential to address all sorts of transgressions between
'worlds' or 'levels', not only in post-modern but also pre-modern
literature.0This volume explores metalepsis in classical antiquity,
considering questions such as: if metalepsis consists fundamentally in
the breaking down of barriers, what sort of barriers and what sort of
transgressions can the concept be fruitfully applied to? Can it be used
within approaches other than narratology? Does metalepsis require
recognisable levels of reality and fictionality, and if so, what role
might be played by other planes, such as the past, the mythical or the
divine? What form does0metalepsis take in less obviously 'narrative'
genres, such as lyric poetry? And how should it be understood in visual
media? Reflecting on these questions sheds new light on important
dynamics in ancient texts, and advances literary theory by probing how
explorations of ancient metalepsis might change, refine, or extend our
understanding of the concept itself...