Semiotic Encounters.
Text, Image and Trans-Nation.
Published in October 2009
Book
276 pages
978-90-420-2714-5 (ISBN)
Description
Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation aims at opening up scholarly debates on the contemporary challenges of intertextuality in its various intersections with postcolonial and visual culture studies. Commencing with three theoretical contributions, which work towards the creation of frameworks under which intertextuality can be (re)viewed today, the volume then explores textual and visual encounters in a number of case studies. While (a) the dimension of the intertextual in the traditional sense (as specified e.g. by Genette) and (b) the widening of the concept towards visual and digital culture govern the structure of the volume, questions of the transnational and/or postcolonial form a recurrent subtext. The volume's combination of theoretical discussions and case studies, which predominantly deal with 'English classics' and their rewritings, film adaptations and/or rereadings, will mainly attract graduate students and scholars working on contemporary literary theory, visual culture and postcolonial literatures.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
447 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-2714-5 (9789042027145)
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Table of Contents
Introduction
Theorising Textual and Visual Encounters
Mary Orr: Intertextuality: Old Debates in New Contexts
Harish Trivedi: Anglophone Transnation, Postcolonial Translation: The Book and the Film as Namesakes
Renate Brosch: Migrating Images and Communal Experience
Textual Encounters
Caroline Lusin: Encountering Darkness: Intertextuality and Polyphony in J.M. Coetzee's Dusklands (1974) and Matthew Kneale's English Passengers (2000)
Georgiana Banita: Affect, Kitsch and Transnational Literature: Azar Nafisi's "Portable Worlds"
Walter Göbel: Washington Irving's "Rip van Winkle", A Postcolonial Reading or: In Search of a Usable Past
Irina Bauder-Begerow: Echoing Dickens: Three Rewritings of Great Expectations
Sarah Säckel: What's in a Wodehouse? (Non-) Subversive Shakespearean Intertextualities in P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster Novels
Ida M. Samperi: "No Text Just Comes out Ex Nihilo, It Always Comes out of Other Texts": Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru
Visual Encounters
Nicola Glaubitz: Transcribing Images - Reassembling Cultures: Kazuo Ishiguro's Japan
Joachim Frenk and Christian Krug: Handovers of Empire: Transatlantic Transmissions in Popular Culture
Sonja Fielitz: Fish and Chips with Marshmallows? Possibilities and Limitations of Trans-Cultural Intermediality
Susanne Gruss: Shakespeare in Bollywood? Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara
Amira Nowaira: Text and Pretext: Reading Cultural and Ideological Paradigms in the Hollywood and Egyptian Movie Adaptations of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
Noha Hamdy: Revisiting Transmediality: 9/11 Between Spectacle and Narrative
Wolfram R. Keller: "Long Live the New Flesh"? David Cronenberg's Videodrome and the Limits of Ovidian Metamorphosis