Understanding Metalepsis: The Hermeneutics of Narrative Transgression (Narratologia)

__Understanding Metalepsis__ provides a state-of-the-art overview of the narratological concept of metalepsis and develops new ways of investigating the forms and functions of metaleptic narratives. Informed by a hermeneutic perspective, this study offers not only an account of the complexities that characterize the process of understanding metaleptic phenomena, but also metatheoretical insights into the hermeneutics of narratology. Acknowledgements Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Framing the Structure of Narrative Metalepsis 2.1 Rhetorical Metalepsis and Narrative Metalepsis: From Rhetorical Trope to Narratological Category 2.1.1 Historical Background: The Rhetorical Trope Metalepsis and Its (Narratological) Reception in the Late Twentieth Century 2.1.2 Genette’s Concept of Narrative Metalepsis (1972) 2.1.3 New Nuances of Meaning: A Minimal Definition of Metalepsis and the Metaleptic Dynamic 2.2 A Critical Reassessment of Metalepsis 2.2.1 Metalepsis and the Diegetic Universe 2.2.2 Metalepsis and Narrational Acts 2.2.3 A Transmedial Definition of Metalepsis 2.2.4 Metaleptic Types 2.2.4.1 Figurative Metalepsis 2.2.4.1.1 Figurative Metalepsis I: Epistemological Metalepsis 2.2.4.1.2 Figurative Metalepsis II: Rhetorical Metalepsis 2.2.4.2 ‘The Marked Case’: Ontological Metalepsis 2.2.4.2.1 Immersive Metalepsis 2.2.4.2.2 Recursive Metalepsis 2.2.5 Metaleptic Effects 3. Breaking the Frame: Metalepsis as Hermeneutic Experience 3.1 Narratology and Hermeneutics 3.1.1 Drawing the Boundaries of Narratology: The Practice that Conceives of the Experience of Narrative Teleologically 3.1.2 A Hermeneutic Perspective on Narratological Practice: The Hermeneutics of Distanciation and the Hermeneutics of Belonging 3.1.3 The Negativity of Hermeneutic Experience 3.2 The Metaleptic Transgression: ‘Impossible Narration’ 3.2.1 ‘Impossible Narration’ I: Aporia and Paradox in the Establishment of Diegetic Levels 3.2.2 ‘Impossible Narration’ II: The Mimetic Presence of the Represented 3.2.3 ‘Impossible Narration’ III: Realist Aporias 3.2.4 ‘Impossible Narration’ IV: Metaization and the Self-Reflexive Paradox 4. The ‘Model’ Case: ‘Impossible Narration’ and Metaleptic Transgressions in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759–1767) 4.1 “Any One Is Welcome to Take My Pen, and Go on with the Story for Me That Will”: Tristram Shandy’s ‘Impossible Narration’ 4.2 “Get My Father and My Uncle Toby off the Stairs and Put Them to Bed”: Metaleptic Transgressions in Tristram Shandy 4.2.1 Figurative Metalepses in Tristram Shandy and the Uncontrollability of Time 4.2.2 Ontological Metalepsis: Immersive Metalepsis and the Question of Reality 4.2.3 Ontological Metalepsis: Immersive (Second Person) Metalepsis and Hermeneutic Experience 4.3 “And Now, You See, I Am Lost Myself!———”: Instead of a Conclusion on Metalepsis and Laurence Sterne 5. Beyond Sterne: The Potential of Metaleptic Experience References Index Die Reihe Narratologia publiziert innovative Monographien und Sammelbnde zur modernen Erzhltheorie und zu ihrer fachgeschichtlichen Rekonstruktion aus allen philologischen Disziplinen. Sie stellt das erste narratologische Forum dieser Art in Deutschland dar. Neben literarischen Texten stehen u. a. auch das Alltagserzhlen, Wort-Bild-Texte, Erzhlen im Film und in den neuen Medien sowie das Erzhlen in Historiographie, Ethnologie, Medizin und Rechtswissenschaft im Fokus der Reihe. Die Publikationssprachen der Reihe sind Deutsch und Englisch. Alle Bnde werden zweifach begutachtet. The Narratologia series publishes state-of-the-art monographs and collective volumes devoted to modern narrative theory and its historical reconstruction in all the philological disciplines. It is the first narratological forum of its kind in Germany. In addition to literary texts, the series focuses on narration in everyday contexts, in pictorial media, in film and in the new media as well as on narration in historiography, ethnology, medicine, and the law. The series publishes in German and English. All volumes are peer reviewed by two anonymous assessors. "Understanding Metalepsis provides a state-of-the-art overview of the narratological concept of metalepsis and develops new ways of investigating the forms and functions of metaleptic narratives. Informed by a hermeneutic perspective, this study offers not only an account of the complexities that characterize the process of understanding metaleptic phenomena, but also metatheoretical insights into the hermeneutics of narratology" -- Provided by publisher