Description in literature and other media / / edited by Werner Wolf and Walter Bernhart.
In contrast to narrative, description is a much less researched phenomenon, and where it so far has found attention at all, scholars have almost always discussed it with fiction in mind. The all but exclusive concentration on literature has hitherto obscured the fact that description transcends lite...
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| Superior document: | Studies in intermediality ; 2 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in intermediality ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Description as a Transmedial Mode of Representation General Features and Possibilities of Realization in Painting, Fiction and Music / Werner Wolf
- Towards a Typology, Poetics and History of Description in Fiction / Ansgar Nünning
- Functions of Description in Poetry / Walter Bernhart
- Description in American Nature Writing / Arno Heller
- The Descriptive in Audio-/Radioliterature – a ‘Blind Date’? / Doris Mader
- For Your Eyes Only: Some Thoughts on the Descriptive in Film / Klaus Rieser
- Dürer’s Apocalypse as the Origin of the Western System of Graphic Reproduction: A Contribution to the History of Descriptive Techniques in the Visual Arts / Johann Konrad Eberlein
- “Spiritualia sub metaphoris corporalium”?: Description in the Visual Arts / Götz Pochat
- Descriptive Images: Authenticity and Illusion in Early and Contemporary Photography / Susanne Knaller
- Musical Sunrises: A Case Study of the Descriptive Potential of Instrumental Music / Michael Walter
- Notes on Contributors.