Examples of mise en abyme in other media – literary technique

Droste effect – Recursive visual effect

Fractal – Infinitely detailed mathematical structure

Matryoshka doll – Russian nested wooden toy

Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979 book) – 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter

Macbeth (1971 film) – 1971 film by Roman Polanski

Meta-reference – Type of self reference

Print Gallery (M. C. Escher) – Lithograph printed in 1956 by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher

Quine (computing) – Self-replicating program

Recursion – Process of repeating items in a self-similar way

Self-similarity – Whole of an object being mathematically similar to part of itself

Story within a story – Literary device

Tamanna (2014 film) – 2014 film directed by Steven Moore