Omschrijving
The increasing transfer of literary texts and of related writing/reading processes from the printed page to analog and digital media (and vice versa) is the phenomenon under investigation in this book, for which the term 'literary intermediality' has been coined. Literature is 'in transit', i.e. travelling incessantly through mass-media, personal-media, and the internet, with crucial effects both on the ways it is perceived by younger generations of users and on the ways it is devised by contemporary authors. The literary text far from being restricted to printed media keeps moving across the whole media circuit, thus acquiring at any stage a new, temporary identity. Based on the seminar 'Intermediality and Literary Practices' at the 7th ESSE Conference in 2004, the essays of this collection by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic focus on the seminar's common topics - cinema, theatre, postmodernism, and new critical issues. The increasing transfer of literary texts and of related writing/reading processes from the printed page to analog and digital media (and vice versa) is the phenomenon under investigation in this book, for which the term 'literary intermediality' has been coined. Literature is 'in transit', i.e. travelling incessantly through mass-media, personal-media, and the internet, with crucial effects both on the ways it is perceived by younger generations of users and on the ways it is devised by contemporary authors. The literary text far from being restricted to printed media keeps moving across the whole media circuit, thus acquiring at any stage a new, temporary identity. Based on the seminar «Intermediality and Literary Practices» at the 7th ESSE Conference in 2004, the essays of this collection by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic focus on the seminar's common topics - cinema, theatre, postmodernism, and new critical issues. Premise
7(9)
Literary Intermediality: An Introduction
9(18)
Maddalena Pennacchia Punzi
Literary Intermediality and Cinema
Writing, the Body, and Cinema: Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book
27(16)
Joy Sisley
From Among the Dead: Identity and Truth in Filmic Letters
43(22)
Celestino Deleyto
Jane Austen on Screen: Deference and Divergence
65(18)
Lydia Martin
Literary Intermediality and Theatre
Intermediality in David Mamet's The Water Engine
83(16)
Johan Callens
``Gonna build a little place for you and me'': Imaginary Spaces in MacIvor's House
99(28)
Bruce Barton
``Star-Cross'd Lovers'' in the Age of AIDS: The Intermediality of Rudolf Nureyev's Romeo and Juliet
127(18)
Karen Bennett
Literary Intermediality and Postmodernism
Intermediality in Literature: Bret Easton Ellis and the MTV Novel
145(18)
Sonia Baelo Allue
Mediatic Metamorphoses and Postmodern Novels by Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ellis and Nick Hornby
163(20)
Barbara Antonucci
Repurposing Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the Postmodern Age
183(20)
Nancy Isenberg
Literary Intermediality and New Critical Issues
Literary Effects of Author-Stardom
203(16)
Ana Vogrincic
Internet, E-Learning and Critical Distance
219(22)
Giuseppe Martella
Shaping G/Local Identities in Intermedial Texts: The Case of Bridget Jones's Diary
241(14)
Maddalena Pennacchia Punzi
Notes on the Contributors
255