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Cultural Functions of Intermedial Exploration

Editor

Summary, in English

This collection of 19 essays is the first one devoted to function-oriented analyses of intermedial interrelationships in literature, art, music, and film. The contributors — among others, Werner Wolf, James Heffernan, Walter Bernhart, Siglind Bruhn, Claus Clüver, Valerie Robillard, and Tamar Yacobi — are leading international scholars in the field of intermediality. The common basis of the essays in this volume — ranging from intermedial studies of medieval liturgical practices, early cinema, modernist art, ekphrasis, music and literature, art and literature, film and literature, hymns, and pop music, to the musical and technological aspects of Concrete poetry — is the ambition to pay attention to the cultural contexts that enhance the significance of these intermedial works and trends under examination. Since the contributions cover different types of intermedial endeavours from various periods and times, a kind of historicizing perspective is outlined. So, in pursuit of a still lacking coherent historical survey of cultural functions of intermediality, this volume might be recognized as a step towards such a Funktionsgeschichte for intermedial exploration.

Department/s

Publishing year

2002

Language

English

Publication/Series

Cultural Functions of Intermedial Exploration

Document type

Book

Publisher

Rodopi

Topic

  • Languages and Literature
  • Arts

Keywords

  • Interart
  • Intermediality

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 90-420-1430-X