The product of an international and interdisciplinary conference, Metalepsis in Popular Culture, held from 25 June to 27 June 2009, with the financial support of the Bureau d'égalité and the Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines, at Neuchâtel University in Switzerland. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Karin Kukkonen and Sonja Klimek : Preface -- Karin Kukkonen : Metalepsis in popular culture: an introduction -- Sonja Klimek : Metalepsis in fantasy fiction -- Liviu Lutas : Narrative metalepsis in detective fiction -- David Ben-Merre : I'm so vain I bet I think this song is about myself: Carly Simon, pop music and the problematic "I"? of lyric poetry -- Tisha Turk : Metalepsis in fan vids and fan fiction -- Henry Keazor : "I had the strangest week ever!" metalepsis in music videos -- Erwin Feyersinger : Metaleptic TV crossovers -- Jeff Thoss : "Some weird kind of video feedback time warp zapping thing": television, remote controls and metalepsis -- Keyvan Sarkhosh : Metalepsis in popular comedy film -- Jean-Marc Limoges : Metalepsis in the cartoons of Tex Avery: expanding the boundaries of transgression -- Karin Kukkonen : Metalepsis in comics and graphic novels -- Roberta Hofer : Metalepsis in live performance: holographic projections of the cartoon band "gorillaz" as a means of metalepsis -- Harald Fricke : Pop-culture in history: metalepsis and metareference in German and Italian music theatre -- John Pier : Afterword -- General bibliography on metalepsis.
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