Kukkonen / Klimek Metalepsis in Popular Culture

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-025280-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 28, 294 Seiten

Reihe: Narratologia

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.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Libraries, Institutes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kukkonen, Karin

Klimek, Sonja

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Table of Contents;6
2;Preface;8
3;Metalepsis in Popular Culture: An Introduction;16
4;Metalepsis in Fantasy Fiction;37
5;Narrative Metalepsis in Detective Fiction;56
6;“I’m so vain I bet I think this song is about myself”: Carly Simon, Pop Music and the Problematic “I” of Lyric Poetry;80
7;Metalepsis in Fan Vids and Fan Fiction;98
8;“I had the strangest week ever!” Metalepsis in Music Videos;119
9;Metaleptic TV Crossovers;142
10;“Some weird kind of video feedback time warp zapping thing”: Television, Remote Controls, and Metalepsis;173
11;Metalepsis in Popular Comedy Film;186
12;Metalepsis in the Cartoons of Tex Avery: Expanding the Boundaries of Transgression;211
13;Metalepsis in Comics and Graphic Novels;228
14;Metalepsis in Live Performance: Holographic Projections of the Cartoon Band “Gorillaz” as a Means of Metalepsis;247
15;Pop-Culture in History: Metalepsis and Metareference in German and Italian Music Theatre;267
16;Afterword;283
17;General Bibliography on Metalepsis;292

Über Autor(innen)

Klimek, Sonja
Sonja Klimek, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Kukkonen, Karin
Karin Kukkonen, University of Tampere, Finland.

Karin Kukkonen, University of Tampere, Finland; Sonja Klimek, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.