Metalepsis in Popular Culture
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Metalepsis in Popular Culture

  1. 294 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Metalepsis in Popular Culture

About this book

When readers become victims of the murder mysteries they are immersed in, when superheroes embark on a quest to challenge their authors or when the fictional rock band Gorillaz flirt with Madonna during their performance, then metalepsis in popular culture occurs. Metalepsis describes the transgression of the boundary between the fictional world and (a representation of) the real world. This volume establishes a transmedial definition of metalepsis and explores the phenomenon in twelve case studies across media and genres of popular culture: from film, TV series, animated cartoons, graphic novels and popular fiction to pop music, music videos, holographic projections and fan cultures.

Narrative studies have considered metalepsis so far largely as a phenomenon of postmodern or avant-garde literature. Metalepsis in Popular Culture investigates metalepsis' ties to the popular and traces its transmedial importance through a wealth of examples from the turn of the 20th century to this day. The articles also address larger issues such as readerly immersion, the appeal of complexity in popular culture, or the negotiation of fiction and reality in media, and invite readers to rethink these issues through the prism of metalepsis.

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Yes, you can access Metalepsis in Popular Culture by Karin Kukkonen, Sonja Klimek, Karin Kukkonen,Sonja Klimek in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Letteratura & Critica letteraria. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9783110252781
eBook ISBN
9783110252804
Edition
1
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Critica letteraria

Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Metalepsis in Popular Culture: An Introduction
  3. Metalepsis in Fantasy Fiction
  4. Narrative Metalepsis in Detective Fiction
  5. “I’m so vain I bet I think this song is about myself”: Carly Simon, Pop Music and the Problematic “I” of Lyric Poetry
  6. Metalepsis in Fan Vids and Fan Fiction
  7. “I had the strangest week ever!” Metalepsis in Music Videos
  8. Metaleptic TV Crossovers
  9. “Some weird kind of video feedback time warp zapping thing”: Television, Remote Controls, and Metalepsis
  10. Metalepsis in Popular Comedy Film
  11. Metalepsis in the Cartoons of Tex Avery: Expanding the Boundaries of Transgression
  12. Metalepsis in Comics and Graphic Novels
  13. Metalepsis in Live Performance: Holographic Projections of the Cartoon Band “Gorillaz” as a Means of Metalepsis
  14. Pop-Culture in History: Metalepsis and Metareference in German and Italian Music Theatre
  15. Afterword
  16. General Bibliography on Metalepsis