Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations....Pages 11-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Border Talks: The Problematic Status of Media Borders in the Current Debate about Intermediality....Pages 51-68
Intermedial Topography and Metaphorical Interaction....Pages 69-80
Intermedial Strategies in Multimedia Art....Pages 81-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-97
‘Media’ before ‘Media’ were Invented: The Medieval Ballad and the Romanesque Church....Pages 99-110
The Intermediality of Field Guides: Notes Towards a Theory....Pages 111-123
Media on the Edge of Nothingness: Visual Apostrophes in Lettrism....Pages 124-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Penrose, ‘seeing is Believing’: Intentionality, Mediation and Comprehension in the Arts....Pages 137-149
Beyond Definition: A Pragmatic Approach to Intermediality....Pages 150-162
Translating Sounds: Intermedial Exchanges in Amy Lowell’s ‘Stravinsky’s Three Pieces “Grotesques”, for String Quartet’....Pages 163-174
‘Transgenic Art’: The Biopoetry of Eduardo Kac....Pages 175-186
Photo/graphic Traces in Dubravka Ugrešić’s The Museum of Unconditional Surrender....Pages 187-198
The Dance of Intermediality: Attempt at a Semiotic Approach of Medium Specificity and Intermediality in Film....Pages 199-210
Media in the Cinematic Imagination: Ekphrasis and the Poetics of the In-Between in Jean-Luc Godard’s Cinema....Pages 211-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Heteromediality....Pages 225-236
Intermediality Revisited: Some Reflections about Basic Principles of this Axe de pertinence....Pages 237-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-270