Paralessi orizzontale e verticale come strumento metalettico di attivazione del legame fantastico : tipologie e studio di casi in racconti di Michele Mari

Paolo Remorini

doi:10.5817/ERB2023-2-17

Horizontal and vertical paralepsis as a metalectic tool of fantastic linkage activation : typologies and case studies in short stories by Michele Mari

Vol.44,No.2(2023)

Paolo Remorini

https://doi.org/10.5817/ERB2023-2-17

Stable URL (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/digilib.78722

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Abstract

We propose in this article an updated definition of paralepsis as a metaleptic tool as unexpected information that concerns not only an anomaly of focalization of fictional discourse (Genette 1972) but an ontological transgression of narrative levels, demarcating the scope of two potential categories, both with two subtypes (vertical top-down and bottom-up paralepsis; horizontal internal and external paralepsis). We seek in this way to move beyond Genette's primordial definition and the meager studies of subsequent decades in light of the work of cognitive narratology on the hermeneutic processes operative in narrative experience and of fantastic linkages in apperception theory (Remorini 2023). We also apply the implications of these definitions to the analysis of Michele Mari's short stories "Josef K." and "Lamento del guerriero" (featured in the 2002 short story collection Fantasmagonia).

Keywords:
cognitive narratology; paralepsis; metalepsis; Michele Mari; apperception theory; fantastic

Pages:
267–287

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