نبذة مختصرة : Metalepsis and metareference are not new concepts in literary theory, but thanks to the hypermediation of contemporary culture, they have acquired a broader meaning that transcends intertextual relations. Metalepsis originally belongs to rhetoric where it denotes any kind of permutation, yet in the sphere of narratology it is understood as "the use of one word instead of another by transferring the meaning […] a synonym of both metonymy and metaphor" (Genette 2006: 6). From Aristotle who reduced metalepsis to analogy and the gift "to notice well what is similar" (Aristotle 2008: 1459a), by development of media that not only depict but also create reality, we have come to metalepsis as a figure that unites author and work, connects the reader with the narration and by broadening the meaning leads to the metadiegetic breaking down of the boundaries between fiction and reality: "The limits of the use of metalepsis are set only by the recipient’s ability to understand it in the right way. If the author's intention to go beyond the framework is too confusing, such a figure does not achieve its goal" (Petković 2018: 239). Narratologist Werner Wolf noticed the similarity of metalepsis, thus defined, with the notion of metareference, which establishes intertextual and intermedial connections in the context of reality oversaturated with media content, producing a new phenomenon of transmediality – the influence of form (McLuhan 1971: 41) on the narrative and its communication with recipients: „‘Metareference’ as a transmedial concept can in brief be explained as follows: metareference issues forth from a logically higher 'meta-level' within a given artefact or performance, and denotes any self-reflexive reference to, or comment on, media-related aspects of the given medial artefact or performance, of a particular medium or the media in general ”(Wolf 2011: c). Dan Sperber attributes to humans a “metarepresentational capacity” that is “no less fundamental than the faculty for language”, and he claims that “[u] ...
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