Genette’s term for the paradoxical confusion or entanglement of narrative levels, as when characters situated in a story within a story (or hypodiegetic narrative) migrate into the diegesis or main narrative level (Herman 2009, p.188).

Genette’s term for the paradoxical confusion or entanglement of narrative levels, as when characters situated in a story within a story (or hypodiegetic narrative) migrate into the diegesis or main narrative level (Herman 2009, p.188).