Media Borders, Multimodality, and Intermediality is a collection of sixteen essays dealing with theoretical questions concerning the relations between various forms of art and new media. Intermediality and multimodality have become buzzwords over the last decade, but surprisingly little effort has been made to circumscribe theoretically what media and modes actually are and how the notions of intermediality and multimodality are related. The aim of the volume is to illuminate these very basic queries in order to facilitate communication and theoretical cross-fertilization over the borders between the aesthetic disciplines, media and communication studies, semiotics, linguistics, and other research fields. The essays deal with combinations, integrations, mediations and transformations of old and new media. Theoretical issues, centred on the core question of media borders, are foregrounded, but the volume also includes a wide range of case studies, including medieval ballads, biopoetry, Lettrism, television, field guides, music, film, digital media and performance.
Introduction: L.Elleström
PART I: MEDIA, MODALITIES, AND MODES
The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations; L.Elleström
PART II: MEDIA BORDERS OF QUALIFIED MEDIA
Border Talks: The Problematic Status of Media Borders in the Current Debate about Intermediality; I.Rajewsky
Intermedial Topography and Metaphorical Interaction; A.Englund
Intermedial Strategies in Multimedia Art; C.Ljungberg
PART III: COMBINATIONS AND INTEGRATIONS OF MEDIA
'Media' before 'Media' Were Invented: The Medieval Ballad and the Romanesque Church; S.Kværndrup
The Intermediality of Field Guides: Notes Towards a Theory; H.Sandgren
Media on the Edge of Nothingness: Visual Apostrophes in Lettrism; S.Sjöberg
PART IV: MEDIATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF MEDIA
Penrose, 'Seeing is Believing': Intentionality, Mediation, and Comprehension in the Arts; S.Bruhn
Beyond Definition: A Pragmatic Approach to Intermediality; V.Robillard
Translating Sounds: Intermedial Exchanges in Amy Lowell's 'Stravinsky's Three Pieces "Grotesques" for String Quartet'; R.Schober
'Transgenic Art': The Biopoetry of Eduardo Kac; C.Clüver
Photo/graphic Traces in Dubravka Ugresic's The Museum of Unconditional Surrender; K.Sándor
The Dance of Intermediality: Attempt to a Semiotic Approach of Medium Specificity and Intermediality in Film; H.Király
Media in the Cinematic Imagination: Ekphrasis and the Poetics of the In-Between in Jean-Luc Godard's Cinema; A.Pethő
PART V: THE BORDERS OF MEDIA BORDERS
Heteromediality; J.Bruhn
Intermediality Re-Visited: Some Reflections about Basic Principles of this Axe de pertinence; J.E.Müller
Notes
Bibliography
Index
LARS ELLESTROM is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Linnaeus University, Sweden. He chairs the board of the Nordic Society for Intermedial Studies and he has written and edited several books, including Divine Madness: On Interpreting Literature, Music, and the Visual Arts Ironically (2002). He has also published numerous articles on poetry, intermediality, gender, and irony.
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Media Borders, Multimodality, and Intermediality is a collection of sixteen essays dealing with theoretical questions concerning the relations between various forms of art and new media. Intermediality and multimodality have become buzzwords over the last decade, but surprisingly little effort has been made to circumscribe theoretically what media and modes actually are and how the notions of intermediality and multimodality are related. The aim of the volume is to illuminate these very basic queries in order to facilitate communication and theoretical cross-fertilization over the borders between the aesthetic disciplines, media and communication studies, semiotics, linguistics, and other research fields. The essays deal with combinations, integrations, mediations and transformations of old and new media. Theoretical issues, centred on the core question of media borders, are foregrounded, but the volume also includes a wide range of case studies, including medieval ballads, biopoetry, Lettrism, television, field guides, music, film, digital media and performance.
Contents
Introduction: L.Elleström
PART I: MEDIA, MODALITIES, AND MODES
The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations; L.Elleström
PART II: MEDIA BORDERS OF QUALIFIED MEDIA
Border Talks: The Problematic Status of Media Borders in the Current Debate about Intermediality; I.Rajewsky
Intermedial Topography and Metaphorical Interaction; A.Englund
Intermedial Strategies in Multimedia Art; C.Ljungberg
PART III: COMBINATIONS AND INTEGRATIONS OF MEDIA
'Media' before 'Media' Were Invented: The Medieval Ballad and the Romanesque Church; S.Kværndrup
The Intermediality of Field Guides: Notes Towards a Theory; H.Sandgren
Media on the Edge of Nothingness: Visual Apostrophes in Lettrism; S.Sjöberg
PART IV: MEDIATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF MEDIA
Penrose, 'Seeing is Believing': Intentionality, Mediation, and Comprehension in the Arts; S.Bruhn
Beyond Definition: A Pragmatic Approach to Intermediality; V.Robillard
Translating Sounds: Intermedial Exchanges in Amy Lowell's 'Stravinsky's Three Pieces "Grotesques" for String Quartet'; R.Schober
'Transgenic Art': The Biopoetry of Eduardo Kac; C.Clüver
Photo/graphic Traces in Dubravka Ugresic's The Museum of Unconditional Surrender; K.Sándor
The Dance of Intermediality: Attempt to a Semiotic Approach of Medium Specificity and Intermediality in Film; H.Király
Media in the Cinematic Imagination: Ekphrasis and the Poetics of the In-Between in Jean-Luc Godard's Cinema; A.Pethő
PART V: THE BORDERS OF MEDIA BORDERS
Heteromediality; J.Bruhn
Intermediality Re-Visited: Some Reflections about Basic Principles of this Axe de pertinence; J.E.Müller
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Authors
LARS ELLESTROM is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Linnaeus University, Sweden. He chairs the board of the Nordic Society for Intermedial Studies and he has written and edited several books, including Divine Madness: On Interpreting Literature, Music, and the Visual Arts Ironically (2002). He has also published numerous articles on poetry, intermediality, gender, and irony.
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