English Dictionary

mise en abyme

noun

(literary theory) Self-reflection or introspection in a literary or other artistic work; the representation of the whole work embedded in a work.

The painting within the painting created a mise en abyme effect.

意味（1）

(literary theory) Self-reflection or introspection in a literary or other artistic work; the representation of the whole work embedded in a work.

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.