Sara Tanderup Linkis

Serialization is an old narrative strategy and a form of publication that can be traced far back in literary history, yet serial narratives are as popular as ever. This book investigates a resurgence of serial narratives in contemporary literary culture. Analyzing series as diverse as Mark Z. Danielewski’s experimental book series The Familiar; audiobook series by the Swedish streaming service Storytel; children’s books by Lemony Snicket and Philip Pullman and their adaptations into screen; and serial writing and reading on the writing site Wattpad, the book traces how contemporary series at once are shaped by literary tradition and develop the format according to the logics of new media and digital technologies. The book sheds light on the interplay between the selected serials' narrative content and medial, social, and economic contexts, drawing on insights from literary studies, literary sociology, media studies, and cultural studies. Serialization in Literature Across Media and Markets thus contributes a unique and interdisciplinary perspective on a historical phenomenon that has proved ever more successful in contemporary media culture. It is a book for researchers and students of literature and media and for anyone who likes a good series and wants to understand why.

Serialization in Literature Across Media and Markets

Patrizia Lombardo

Lars SAetre

Lars S'tre

Exploring Text, Media and Memory investigates the link between memory and media by asking a series of questions pertinent to our time: How do individual and collective memories blend? How do traumatic experiences from past events and catastrophic projections of the future reveal the human condition in the epoch of frenetic technological reproduction of works of art? How is the human body tied to narrations - and why? A group of international scholars tackle questions like these across art forms, media, and cultural history. In nineteen essays they argue that modern and contemporary literary texts and visual arts show how photography, film, tape recording, television, and internet are not just means of storing memory and information, but objects that we interact with every day - challenging static visions of places and the linear notions of past, present and future.

Exploring Text, Media, and Memory

"If readers of Sara Tanderup Linkis’ "Something to hold on to ..." open the book in the expectation of entering a niche of literature and literary studies, they will leave it after having encountered a new highway in literature. Here, the traditional theme of memory and the most recent use of digital media merge into a new understanding of the role of the book in the contemporary media landscape and of vicissitudes of memorial processes literature, which also offers a broader perspective on literature in human history. Spurred by Sara Tanderup Linkis’ sharp eye the readings of texts are lucid, engaging and offers so many ideas that teachers will renew their curricula, and readers will open the internet for more or rush to the library." — Svend Erik Larsen, professor emeritus Memory, Intermediality, and Literature investigates how selected literary works use intermedial strategies to represent and perform cultural memory. Drawing on the theoretical perspectives of cultural memory studies, this engaging, reader-friendly monograph examines new materialism and intermediality studies, analyzying works by Alexander Kluge, W.G. Sebald, Jonathan Safran Foer, Anne Carson, Mette Hegnhøj, William Joyce, J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst. The works emerge out of different traditions and genres, ranging from neo-avant-garde montages through photo-novels and book objects to apps and children’s stories. In this new monograph, Sara Tanderup Linkis presents an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, reading the works together, across genres and decades, and combining the perspectives of memory studies and materialist and media-oriented analysis. This approach makes it possible to argue that the works not only use intermedial strategies to represent memory, but also to remember literature, reflecting on the changing status and function of literature as a mediator of cultural memory in the age of new media. Thus, the works may be read as reactions to modern media culture, suggesting the ways in which literature and memory are affected by new media and technologies – photography and television as well as iPads and social media.

Something to Hold on to

Memory, Intermediality, and Literature

Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen

Nina Christensen

Hans Kristian Rustad

Tore Rye Andersen

Stefan Kjerkegaard

Jorgen Bruhn

Litteratur kan sige hvad som helst. Om alt muligt. Men vi lAeser ikke kun litteratur med en bog i handen. I dag er bogstaverne vandret ud af de trykte boger og over i andre medier. Det Aendrer litteraturens muligheder og gor den bevidst om sig selv som mediebaret. Det stiller ogsa krav til lAeserne, der skal finde vej mellem skAerme, computerspil, lydboger, apps, oplAesninger og musik. I Litteratur mellem medier tager 19 forskere det alvorligt, at litteratur placerer sig mellem medier - mellem skrift, lyd og billede. De bringer moderne medieerfaringer ind i analyser af aktuelle litterAere fAenomener og introducerer til nye interdisciplinAere og mediesensitive metoder, vi kan bruge i vores egen lAesning. Undervejs forholder forfatterne sig blandt andet til romaneksperimenter, filmadaptationer, amerikanske tv-serier, forfatterportrAetter og interaktive fortAellinger - fra Pynchon til Knausgard og fra Sailor's Dream til Six Feet Under. Alt sammen med et nysgerrigt blik pa, hvad litteratur og litterAer erkendelse er, nar litteraturen ikke lAengere kun findes pa papir.

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