By Karin Kukkonen
Metalepsis refers back to the crossing of obstacles among fiction and truth in narratives. This quantity offers a scientific review of metalepsis, its forms and results, in pop culture. The contributions speak about well known fiction, fan fiction, pop lyrics, comics, motion pictures, lively cartoons, song video clips, reside performances and television sequence from the flip of the 20 th century to the current day. Metalepsis in pop culture introduces the rhetorical suggestion of metalepsis and applies it to modern pop culture, thereby demonstrating its significance for the negotiation of truth and fiction in our cultural international.
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