Semiotic encounters : : text, image and trans-nation / / edited by Sarah Säckel, Walter Göbel and Noha Hamdy.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 128
• TeilnehmendeR: Säckel, Sarah.; Göbel, Walter.; Hamdy, Noha.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 128.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Intertextuality: Old Debates in New Contexts / Mary Orr -- Anglophone Transnation, Postcolonial Translation: The Book and the Film as Namesakes / Harish Trivedi -- Migrating Images and Communal Experience / Renate Brosch -- Encountering Darkness: Intertextuality and Polyphony in J.M. Coetzee’s Dusklands (1974) and Matthew Kneale’s English Passengers (2000) / Caroline Lusin -- Affect, Kitsch and Transnational Literature: Azar Nafisi’s “Portable Worlds” / Georgiana Banita -- Washington Irving’s “Rip van Winkle”, A Postcolonial Reading or: In Search of a Usable Past / Walter Göbel -- Echoing Dickens: Three Rewritings of Great Expectations / Irina Bauder-Begerow -- What’s in a Wodehouse? (Non-) Subversive Shakespearean Intertextualities in P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster Novels / Sarah Säckel -- “No Text Just Comes out Ex Nihilo, It Always Comes out of Other Texts”: Christine Brooke-Rose’s Thru / Ida M. Samperi -- Transcribing Images – Reassembling Cultures: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Japan / Nicola Glaubitz -- Handovers of Empire: Transatlantic Transmissions in Popular Culture / Joachim Frenk and Christian Krug -- Fish and Chips with Marshmallows? Possibilities and Limitations of Trans-Cultural Intermediality / Sonja Fielitz -- Shakespeare in Bollywood? Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara / Susanne Gruss -- Text and Pretext: Reading Cultural and Ideological Paradigms in the Hollywood and Egyptian Movie Adaptations of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina / Amira Nowaira -- Revisiting Transmediality: 9/11 Between Spectacle and Narrative / Noha Hamdy -- “Long Live the New Flesh”? David Cronenberg’s Videodrome and the Limits of Ovidian Metamorphosis / Wolfram R. Keller.