Metareference across media : : theory and case studies / / edition by Werner Wolf ; in collaboration with Katharina Bantleon and Jeff Thoss.

• TeilnehmendeR: Wolf, Werner, 1955-; Bantleon, Katharina.; Thoss, Jeff.; Bernhart, Walter.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Intermediality 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 656 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: "Dedicated to Walter Bernhart on the occasion of his retirement."; Papers originally presented at a symposium held in Graz, May 22-24, 2008.

Strange as it may seem, Cervantes’s novel Don Quixote , Marc Forster’s film Stranger than Fiction , Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Pere Borrell del Caso’s painting “Escaping Criticism” reproduced on the cover of the present volume and Mozart’s sextet “A Musical Joke” all share one common feature: they include a meta-dimension. Metaization – the movement from a first cognitive, referential or communicative level to a higher one on which first-level phenomena self-reflexively become objects of reflection, reference and communication in their own right – is in fact a common feature not only of human thought and language but also of the arts and media in general. However, research into this issue has so far predominantly focussed on literature, where a highly differentiated, albeit strictly monomedial critical toolbox exists. Metareference across Media remedies this onesidedness and closes the gap between literature and other media by providing a transmedial framework for analysing metaphenomena. The essays transcend the current notion of metafiction, pinpoint examples of metareference in hitherto neglected areas, discuss the capacity for metaization of individual media or genres from a media-comparative perspective, and explore major (historical) forms and functions as well aspects of the development of metaization in cultural history. Stemming from diverse disciplinary and methodological backgrounds, the contributors propose new and refined concepts and models and cover a broad range of media including fiction, drama, poetry, comics, photography, film, computer games, classical as well as popular music, painting, and architecture. This collection of essays, which also contains a detailed theoretical introduction, will be relevant to students and scholars from a wide variety of fields: intermediality studies, semiotics, literary theory and criticism, musicology, art history, and film studies.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Metareference across Media: The Concept, its Transmedial Potentials and Problems, Main Forms and Functions / Werner Wolf -- Metareference from a Semiotic Perspective / Winfried Nöth -- The Case is ‘this’: Metareference in Magritte and Ashbery / Andreas Mahler -- Beyond ‘Metanarration’: Form-Based Metareference as a Transgeneric and Transmedial Phenomenon / Irina O. Rajewsky -- Metalepsis and Its (Anti-)Illusionist Effects in the Arts, Media and Role-Playing Games / Sonja Klimek -- Generic Titles: On Paratextual Metareference in Music / Hermann Danuser -- “Music about Music”: Metaization and Intertextuality in Beethoven’s Prometheus Variations opus 35 / Tobias Janz -- Exploring Metareference in Instrumental Music – The Case of Robert Schumann / René Michaelsen -- Phantasmic Metareference: The Pastiche ‘Operas’ in Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera / David Francis Urrows -- Intramedial Reference and Metareference in Contemporary Music / Jörg-Peter Mittmann -- “Please Play This Song on the Radio”: Forms and Functions of Metareference in Popular Music / Martin Butler -- “L’architecture n’est pas un art rigoureux”: Jean Nouvel, Postmodernism and Meta-Architecture / Henry Keazor -- Of Museums, Beholders, Artworks and Photography: Metareferential Elements in Thomas Struth’s Photographic Projects Museum Photographs and Making Time / Katharina Bantleon and Jasmin Haselsteiner-Scharner -- The Gradable Effects of Self-Reflexivity on Aesthetic Illusion in Cinema / Jean-Marc Limoges -- Novel in/and Film: Transgeneric and Transmedial Metareference in Stranger than Fiction / Barbara Pfeifer -- Narrative Fiction and the Fascination with the New Media Gramophone, Photography and Film Metafictional and Media-Comparative Aspects of H. G. Wells’ A Modern Utopia and Beryl Bainbridge’s Master Georgie / Hans Ulrich Seeber -- Metareference and Intermedial Reference: William Carlos Williams’ Poetological Poems / Daniella Jancsó -- Metareferentiality in Early Dance: The Jacobean Antimasque / Ingrid Pfandl-Buchegger and Gudrun Rottensteiner -- Textworlds and Metareference in Comics / Karin Kukkonen -- Metareference in the Audio-/Radioliterary Soundscape / Doris Mader -- Metareference in Computer Games / Fotis Jannidis -- When Metadrama Is Turned into Metafilm A Media-Comparative Approach to Metareference / Janine Hauthal -- Quotation of Forms as a Strategy of Metareference / Andreas Böhn -- ‘The Media as Such’: Meta-Reflection in Russian Futurism – A Case Study of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s Poetry, Paintings, Theatre, and Films / Erika Greber -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.