Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Lars Elleström

      Pages 1-8

3. Media, Modalities and Modes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations

      • Lars Elleström

      Pages 11-48

4. Media Borders of Qualified Media

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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   2. Border Talks: The Problematic Status of Media Borders in the Current Debate about Intermediality

      • Irina O. Rajewsky

      Pages 51-68

   3. Intermedial Topography and Metaphorical Interaction

      • Axel Englund

      Pages 69-80

   4. Intermedial Strategies in Multimedia Art

      • Christina Ljungberg

      Pages 81-95

5. Combinations and Integrations of Media

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. ‘Media’ before ‘Media’ were Invented: The Medieval Ballad and the Romanesque Church

      • Sigurd Kvœrndrup

      Pages 99-110

   3. The Intermediality of Field Guides: Notes Towards a Theory

      • Håkan Sandgren

      Pages 111-123

   4. Media on the Edge of Nothingness: Visual Apostrophes in Lettrism

      • Sami Sjöberg

      Pages 124-134

6. Mediations and Transformations of Media

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. Penrose, ‘seeing is Believing’: Intentionality, Mediation and Comprehension in the Arts

      • Siglind Bruhn

      Pages 137-149

   3. Beyond Definition: A Pragmatic Approach to Intermediality

      • Valerie Robillard

      Pages 150-162

   4. Translating Sounds: Intermedial Exchanges in Amy Lowell’s ‘Stravinsky’s Three Pieces “Grotesques”, for String Quartet’

      • Regina Schober

      Pages 163-174

   5. ‘Transgenic Art’: The Biopoetry of Eduardo Kac

      • Claus Clüver

      Pages 175-186

   6. Photo/graphic Traces in Dubravka Ugrešić’s The Museum of Unconditional Surrender

      • Katalin Sándor

      Pages 187-198

   7. The Dance of Intermediality: Attempt at a Semiotic Approach of Medium Specificity and Intermediality in Film

      • Hajnal Király

      Pages 199-210

   8. Media in the Cinematic Imagination: Ekphrasis and the Poetics of the In-Between in Jean-Luc Godard’s Cinema

      • Ágnes Pethő

      Pages 211-222

A groundbreaking collection of essays looking at the concepts of 'intermediality' and 'multimodality' - the relationship between various forms of art and new media - and including case studies ranging from music, film and architecture to medieval ballads, biopoetry and Lettrism.

• film
• Imagination
• interaction
• media
• Medium
• multimedia
• Museum
• new media
• poetry

• Linnaeus University, Sweden

  Lars Elleström

JØRGEN BRUHN is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, Växjö University, Sweden SIGLIND BRUHN is a researcher at the University of Michigan's Institute for the Humanities, USA, and the Sorbonne's Institute for the Aesthetics of Contemporary Arts, France CLAUS CLÜVER is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Indiana University, USA AXEL ENGLUND is a Doctoral Candidate in Comparative Literature at Stockholm University, Sweden HAJNAL KIRÁLY is a freelance film critic, presently translator at the Cardiff, UK, office of Thomson Reuters news agency SIGURD KVÆRNDRUP is a researcher at the University of Växjö, Sweden CHRISTINA LJUNGBERG is Adjunct Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Zurich, Switserland JÜRGEN E. MÜLLER is Professor and Chair of the Media Department at the University of Bayreuth, Germany ÁGNES PETH? is Associate Professor at the Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, and the Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca, Romania IRINA O. RAJEWSKY is Associate Professor of Italian and French Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany VALERIE ROBILLARD is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Culture at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands HÅKAN SANDGREN is Senior Lecturer in Swedish and Comparative Literature at Kristianstad University College, Sweden KATALIN SÁNDOR is Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Letters of Babe? Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania REGINA SCHOBER is a Doctoral Candidate in American Studies at Leibniz University, Hanover, Germany SAMI SJÖBERG is a researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland

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