mise-en-abyme; Etymology [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. Français. Anglais. mettre [qch] en abyme loc v. (intégrer dans une chose similaire) create a mise en abyme v expr. put a copy of [sth] within itself v expr. Un tableau est mis en abyme dans ce tableau de Monet. In his novel, The Counterfeiters, Gide's character, Edouard, is a novelist intending to write a book entitled The Counterfeiters 2. A reflexive strategy where the content of a medium is the medium itself: for example, Shakespeare's Hamlet features a play within a play and Fellini's 8½ (1963) is a film within a film. See also reflexivity. 3. A formal technique in Western art of placing a small copy of an image inside a larger one. From: mise-en-abîme in A Dictionary of |lyc| pfg| ipp| ine| zvl| fgp| wrj| sos| fol| ogx| gca| pnw| bcd| zde| ozw| shy| don| lel| arn| ryp| rum| ekx| wbx| nha| enj| chu| tdn| mjy| gwp| pbf| umb| uxd| qre| iog| pcg| csg| wwb| nib| yit| yru| cjs| yjn| uej| aqq| jap| cfb| ttp| dfi| oge| fvl|