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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsThe Editors: Introduction: In Pursuit of Functional Aspects of Intermedia Studies Werner WOLF: Towards a Functional Analysis of Intermediality: The Case of Twentieth-Century Musicalized Fiction James HEFFERNAN: Literacy and Picturacy: How Do We Learn to Read Pictures? Helena BODIN: Metaphor and Metonymy in the Byzantine Representation of the Divine: Remarks on the Interart Aspects of Byzantine Aesthetics Nils Holger PETERSEN: Intermedial Strategy and Spirituality in the Emerging Opera: Gagliano’s Dafne and Confraternity Devotion Kristin RYGG: Mystification through Musicalization and Demystification through Music: The Case of Haugtussa Vreni HOCKENJOS: Strindberg and the Sciopticon Bengt EDLUND: Musical Conception of Abstract Film: The Case of Viking Eggeling’s Diagonal Symphony Siglind BRUHN: Three Ways of Listening to Birds on a Crank: Musical Interpretations of Paul Klee’s Witty Criticism of Modern Culture Valerie K. ROBILLARD: On the Virtue of Hindsight: William Carlos Williams and the Abstract Expressionists. Paul TENNGART: Poetry as Music: The Significance of Musicalized Poetry in the Aftermath of Swedish Modernism Claus CLÜVER: Concrete Sound Poetry: Between Poetry and Music Jesper OLSSON: Typewriter; Tape Recorder & Concrete Poetry Tamar YACOBI: Ekphrasis and Perspectival Structure Johan STENSTRÖM: The Representation of Orthodox Icons in the Poetry of Ingemar Leckius Mona SANDQVIST: The Voice of the Artefact in Göran Sonnevi’s “Burge, Öja; 1989” Ulla-Britta LAGERROTH: Gazing at ‘The Female Nude’: Gendered Functions of a Visual Icon in Some Modern Texts Walter BERNHART: The ‘Destructiveness of Music’: Functional Intermedia Disharmony in Popular Songs Anders OHLSSON: The Filmicalized Novel and the Medialization of Life: Ben Eltons Popcorn Inger SELANDER: Ways and Functions of Intermedial Relationships between Text and Tune in Hymns Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index of Names
