Guido Isekenmeier

Gerd Bayer

In this volume, a collector, a translator and a handful of scholars pay tribute to John Fowles, one of the most important voices in English fiction after World War II. Their contributions address The Magus, The French Lieutenant?s Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin and the unpublished Tesserae.

Recollecting John Fowles / Wiedererinnerungen an John Fowles

Andreas Böhn

Dominik Schrey

Dieser Band bietet eine Einführung in theoretische Grundlagen und zentrale Aspekte der Bezüglichkeit von Texten und Medien. Er verfolgt die Entwicklung von der klassischen Intertextualitäts- (Genette, Kristeva) zur neueren Intermedialitätsforschung (Rajewsky, Paech), behandelt aber auch die Frage der Kombination und Konkurrenz von Medien vom Wettstreit der Künste in der Antike und Frühen Neuzeit bis hin zur zeitgenössischen Medienkonvergenz. Drei ausführliche Analysekapitel stellen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten anhand literarischer und audiovisueller Beispiele vor.

Theoretische Grundlagen – Exemplarische Analysen

Intertextualität und Intermedialität

Ronja Bodola

This book challenges the focus on pictoriality as central constituent of visual culture from the perspective of literary studies, which in the wake of an ‘intermedial turn’ so far focused on the ways texts relate to pictures and visual media either in praesentia (e.g. word and image studies) or in absentia (e.g. ekphrasis). Instead, it emphasizes literature’s participation in visual culture at large and focuses on three areas of investigation: (1) the depiction of, for instance, visual perceptions in the literary mode of description, which is paramount to formatting the mental aspect of visual culture; (2) the readerly practice of visualising situations and events of the fictional world, which mediates between those mentefacts and techniques of writing; (3) textual visibilities which are grounded in materiality. The volume explores these three areas from a systematically integrated perspective and the essays include in-depth treatments of seminal examples taken from Western literatures (primarily English and German, but also French and American literature) from early modern times to the present. This book’s aim is to work out literature’s active role in shaping visual culture, thus demonstrating its relevance for “image studies”.

Guido Isekenmeier

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