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Book Synopsis«This volume locates itself neatly in the growing collection of publications on intermediality by relating such practices to Roland Barthes. Barthesian motifs and writerly concerns are found within a variety of intermedial practices, as the analysis moves, historically and globally, across visual, aural and literary cultures. Such an approach is both appropriate and innovative within Barthes Studies and in cultural theory more generally.»
(Andy Stafford, Professor of French and Critical Theory, University of Leeds)
The essays in this collection reconsider Roland Barthes as a crucial figure in intermedia studies, arguing that the concepts and forms of analysis he pioneered are of continuing importance for students and scholars working in the field. These essays utilize an interdisciplinary methodology, drawing on Barthes’s own intermedial critical practice, to examine the multiple relationships between art, literature, music and performance and across different languages. The collection places Barthes’s writing in critical dialogue with other theorists, including Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Dick Higgins and Emmanuel Levinas, investigating the work of figures as varied as André Breton, Giordano Bruno, Alain Cavalier, Alfred Hitchcock, Marcel Schwob, W. G. Sebald, Steven Spielberg, Yoko Tawada and Lev Tolstoy. The collection demonstrates that Barthes’s intermedial critical and theoretical practice provides a means of challenging fixed critical narratives and exploring crucial intermedial issues, including how narrative crosses media, the close relationship between image and text throughout history, and how twentieth-century consumer capitalist culture transformed the relationship between image and text.
Table of ContentsContents: Fabien Arribert-Narce and Alex Watson: Introduction – Image – Davide Messina: Snowflakes and Shadows: Giordano Bruno after Dick Higgins – François Giraud: Snowflakes and Shadows: Giordano Bruno after Dick Higgins – Alex Watson: Intermedial Post-Romanticism: W. G. Sebald’s Ruins of Empire in Austerlitz (2001) – Music – Alexandra Smith: The Imaginaire of Music and the Representation of Emotions in Lev Tolstoy’s Novel Childhood – Keita Hatooka: Sound of Adaptation: Jaws (1975) and Psycho (1960) – Keijiro Suga: Poetical Interlude: «Water Schools» (水の小学校) – Language/ Text – Beata Migut: In-Between Languages, Words and Images: Yoko Tawada’s The Naked Eye – Rumiko Oyama: Image and Text in Multimodal Texts: Intermediality between Visual Images and Japanese Writing Systems – Barthes – Fabien Arribert-Narce: Roland Barthes’s Intermedial Practice of Life Writing: Collecting (Auto-)Biographemes, between Image and Text – Matthis Hervieux: Barthes’s Bunraku: An Intermedial Approach to Alterity – Peter Dayan: Afterword: Barthes, Fortunately, Had Never Heard of What We Call Intermediality.
