Cultural Functions of Intermedial Exploration / / edited by Erik Hedling, Ulla-Britta Lagerroth.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 62
• TeilnehmendeR: Hedling, Erik,; Lagerroth, Ulla-Britta,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 62.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 pages)
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004490159
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Erik Hedling, Ulla-Britta Lagerroth.

This collection of 19 essays is the first one devoted to function-oriented analyses of intermedial interrelationships in literature, art, music, and film. The contributors - among others, Werner Wolf, James Heffernan, Walter Bernhart, Siglind Bruhn, Claus Clüver, Valerie Robillard, and Tamar Yacobi - are leading international scholars in the field of intermediality. The common basis of the essays in this volume - ranging from intermedial studies of medieval liturgical practices, early cinema, modernist art, ekphrasis, music and literature, art and literature, film and literature, hymns, and pop music, to the musical and technological aspects of Concrete poetry - is the ambition to pay attention to the cultural contexts that enhance the significance of these intermedial works and trends under examination. Since the contributions cover different types of intermedial endeavours from various periods and times, a kind of historicizing perspective is outlined. So, in pursuit of a still lacking coherent historical survey of cultural functions of intermediality, this volume might be recognized as a step towards such a Funktionsgeschichte for intermedial exploration.