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Book SynopsisAfterlives of Romantic Intermediality addresses the manifold, even global artistic developments that were initiated by European Romantics. In the first section, the contributors show how the rising perspective of intermediality was discussed in philosophical terms and adapted itself to Romantic literature and music. In the second section, the contributors show how post-Romantic writers, visual artists, and composers have engaged with Romantic heritage. By exploring primary works that range from European arts to Latin American literature, these essays focus on the interdisciplinary developments that have emerged in literature, music, painting, film, architecture, and video art. Overall, the contributions in this volume demonstrate that intermedial connectionsor sometimes the conscious lack of such connectionsembody intriguing aspects of modernity and postmodernity.
Trade Review“This is among the finest selection of interdisciplinary papers on Romanticism I’ve seen. Richly varied and highly stimulating.” -- David Hertz, Indiana University
"Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality is an excellently edited and highly readable collection of essays. Its authors emphasize a range of questions central to inter-art relationships, highlighting terms such as synesthesia, metaphoricity, sublimity, and many others. Although its emphasis falls on the German Romantics, this volume goes well beyond German sources. It explores an array of texts, including not only representatives of the long nineteenth century, but also contemporary practitioners—from Schlegel and Keats up to the video artist Bill Viola—frequently finding new, creative, and surprising connections between them." -- Brad Prager, University of Missouri
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Leena H. Eilittä Part I: Intermediality in the Romantic Arts and Philosophy Loss of Presentiveness—and Poetical Explanations: Linguistic Iconicity in Poetry by Tieck and Eichendorff Norman Kasper Externalizing the Picture Frame: Keats’s Negative Capability and the Uses of Ekphrasis Klara Franz “Meteoric and Solar light”: Visuality as Formal Principle in Franz Liszt´s The Battle of the Huns Arne Stollberg Mediality and Intermediality in Friedrich Schlegel’s Early Romantic Thought Asko Nivala Aesthetic Unity and the Politics of Sameness in Clemens Brentano’s Theoretical Writings Mattias Pirholt Part II: Afterlives of Romantic Intermediality Video-Installations as Poems: Romantic legacies Antonio J. Jimenez-Munoz With Hoffmann at the Movies: Intermedial Poetics and Narration in Early German Cinema Sabine Müller Gothic Ruins, Aesthetics of Fragmentation, and Identity in Crises in Rubble Films Martina Moeller ‘Intermediality’ as an Aesthetic Program: Gustav Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen as a Post-Romantic Response to Wilhelm Müller’s Winterreise and Die schöne Müllerin Tobias Hermans The Role of Synesthesia in the Paragone of Bauhaus Karl Schawelka Desire, Ekphrasis and the Language of Early Films in Spanish American Modernista Travel Texts Jacinto Fombona Haunting of Ekphrasis. The River Plate Romantics Read Byron James Cisneros About the Editors and Contributors
