Semiotic encounters : : text, image and trans-nation /

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

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 fram...

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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
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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.

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