Search results for "mediality"
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'Across the Lens of the Eye': Interaction between Word and Image in Mervyn Peake's Work
2010
This article examines intermediality in the work of Mervyn Peake. It draws on recent scholarship based on phenomenology and mediology, and takes as its starting point the physical process of production within the setting of 19th and 20th century graphic culture.
Unaccusativity
2012
Abstract My research is an attempt at suggesting a cross-linguistically valid definition of verbs characterized by unagentivity and affectedness such as “burn”, “die”, “sink”, “fall”, “slide”, etc., which according to the present analysis constitute the semantic core of unaccusativity. Both synchronic and diachronic approaches are followed. Various definitions have been attributed to these verbs (eventives, anticausatives, transformatives, inchoatives, decausatives). Although Perlmutter & Postal (1984) classify unaccusative verbs on the basis of their syntactic behavior, they also argue that the syntactic expression of arguments is always determinable on the basis of the meaning of the verb…
Ubique and Unique Book: The Presence and Potential of the Codex : Introduction to the Thematic Cluster (Part 1)
2019
The articles in this two-issue thematic cluster of Image [&] Narrative (20.1 and 20.2) explore the contemporary status of the book (in literature and, more generally, in culture). This introduction addresses the cultural context of the notion of book today and presents the various articles of the issue. nonPeerReviewed
Something Borrowed : Interfigural Characterisation in Anglo-American Fantasy Comics
2016
It is no secret that comics’ formal structure resembles a pastiche: images, words and gaps of different styles and abstraction levels mix to tell a story that is more than their sum. Is it any wonder, then, that modern, myth-driven graphic novels tend to borrow their content elements – such as characters – from several heterogeneous sources as well? Wolfgang G. Müller's little-known but widely applicable theory of interfigurality (1991) shows how literary characters gain depth and resonance by sharing elements with characters in other works. The chapter revises his theory and shows how it could also be used in the analysis of comic book characters. Fantasy comics from Vertigo series like Fa…
The World Hobbit Project in Finland : Audience responses and transmedial user practices
2016
This article examines audience engagement with The Hobbit fantasy film trilogy as a participatory and transmedial experience. To do so, we use the data collected by The World Hobbit Project in order to investigate the transmedial user practices of the Finnish audience of the trilogy. We will, firstly, look at what kinds of transmedial user practices – and transmedia users – emerge from our data. Secondly, we will ask the following questions: How do transmedia users receive and experience the films? What are the meanings assigned to The Hobbit films and the fantasy texts and user practices related to them, and what do these meanings tell of the broader meanings and uses of fantasy? Doing so,…
Framing Jean-Michel Basquiat’s art: from street walls to galleries and museums
2019
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Margaret Atwood and Adaptation: The Handmaid’s Tale and Beyond
2021
Margaret Atwood has long been appreciated for her ardent defense of Canadian authors and her genre-bending fiction, essays and poetry. However, an aspect of her work that has perhaps been less thoroughly examined is her work both as adaptor and as source for adaptation in media as varied as opera, television, film, or comic books. Recent critically acclaimed television adaptations of the novels The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu) and Alias Grace (Amazon) have rightfully focused attention on these works, but Atwood’s fiction has long been a source of inspiration for artists of various media, a seeming corollary to Atwood’s own tendency to explore the possibilities of media (graphic novels), genres (s…
Retelling the Three Little Pigs : Collusion between Text and Image in Postmodern Variations
2018
International audience
Intermediaalinen kirjallisuus
2022
Teos on ensimmäinen intermediaalista kirjallisuutta ja kirjallista intermediaalisuutta käsittelevä suomenkielinen kokonaisesitys. Kaikenlaiset mediat, myös kirjalliset, limittyvät teknologioiden moninaistumisen myötä yhä tiiviimmin arkeen ja elämään. Laajimmillaan intermediaalisuus viittaa kaikkiin sellaisiin ilmiöihin, joihin tavalla tai toisella liittyy useampi kuin yksi media. Mediaalisuuden painoarvo merkityksen muodostumisessa, taiteessa, kulttuurissa, vallankäytössä ja politiikassa kasvaa alati. Intermediaalisen kirjallisuuden aiheet liikkuvat H. P. Lovecraftista Puluboihin ja Don DeLillosta The League of Extraordinary Gentlemeniin. Myös kirjallista hiljaisuutta, kinekfrastisia novell…
Metaliterārais vēstījums romānā „Džentelmeņa Tristrama Šendija dzīve un uzskati” un tā ekranizācija
2015
Maģistra darbā „Metaliterārais vēstījums romānā Džentlmeņa Tristrama Šendija dzīve un uzskati un tā ekranizācijā” ir veikts Lorensa Sterna literārā pirmavota un Maikla Vinterbotoma adaptācijas Tristrams Šendijs: stāsts par gaili un bulli metanaratīvu salīdzinājums. Darba mērķis ir atainot filmas un romāna metanaratīva aspektus un noteikt paņēmienus, kādi ir izmantoti metanaratīvu tekstā adaptējot romāna ekranizācijā. Teorētiskajā daļā ir sniegts izskaidrojums tādiem konceptiem kā metaliterārais un filmu naratīvs, fokalizācija, metaizācijas apstākļi, kā arī metatekstualitātes un metadaptāciju aspekti, kuri ir aktuāli analizējot Tristramu Šendiju. Empīriskajā daļā ir sniegtas atbildes uz pētī…