Metalepsis in Comics and Graphic Novels

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Metalepsis in Popular Culture: An Introduction 1
5. Metalepsis in Fantasy Fiction 22
6. Narrative Metalepsis in Detective Fiction 41
7. “I’m so vain, I bet I think this song is about myself”: Carly Simon, Pop Music and the Problematic “I” of Lyric Poetry 65
8. Metalepsis in Fan Vids and Fan Fiction 83
9. “I had the strangest week ever!“ Metalepsis in Music Videos 104
10. Metaleptic TV Crossovers 127
11. “Some weird kind of video feedback time warp zapping thing”: Television, Remote Controls, and Metalepsis 158
12. Metalepsis in Popular Comedy Film 171
13. Metalepsis in the Cartoons of Tex Avery: Expanding the Boundaries of Transgression 196
14. Metalepsis in Comics and Graphic Novels 213
15. Metalepsis in Live Performance: Holographic Projections of the Cartoon Band “Gorillaz” as a Means of Metalepsis 232
16. Pop-Culture in History: Metalepsis and Metareference in German and Italian Music Theatre 252
17. Afterword 268
18. General Bibliography on Metalepsis 277