mise en abyme
English
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[edit]From French mise en abyme (literally “placement into abyss”).
Noun
[edit]mise en abyme (usually uncountable, plural mise en abymes or mises en abyme)
- (literary theory) Self-reflection or introspection in a literary or other artistic work; the representation of the whole work embedded in a work.
- 1992, Marie Murphy, Authorizing Fictions, page 80:
- The narrative mapping of rhetorical strategies between narrator, characters and readers is supplemented by a network of interior duplication with the device of the mise en abyme.
- 1995, Robert L. Brawley, Text to Text Pours Forth Speech: Voices of Scripture in Luke-Acts, page 39:
- Implicitly, the enunciative mise en abyme reflects an implied author who is attempting to persuade an authorial audience that would identify with the dismayed people.
- 1999, James Schiffer, Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays, published 2010, unnumbered page:
- Herman finds that “the opening poems are as marked by 'linguistic difference' and mise en abymes as the poems addressed to the dark lady.”
- 2009, Gregory Minissale, Framing Consciousness in Art: Transcultural Perspectives, page 49:
- At the risk of some simplification, I understand the mise en abyme to mean a process of representation within representation which points to the mise en abyme of consciousness that produces it, and is engaged with it in the art experience.
- 2011, Irene Marques, Transnational Discourses on Class, Gender, and Cultural Identity, page 160:
- These mise en abymes serve to maintain the sacredness of K's self, his otherness in the infinitum, as Lévinas might say.
- 2011, Jonathan Boulter, Melancholy and the Archive: Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel, page 124:
- And thus, we can perhaps makes some sense of the narratives he reads as mise en abymes of his own desires.
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Originally a term used in heraldry, applied to the arts by André Gide.
Pronunciation
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[edit]mise en abyme f (plural mises en abyme)
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