Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality

JØRGEN BRUHN is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, Växjö University, SwedenSIGLIND BRUHN is a researcher at the University of Michigan's Institute for the Humanities, USA, and the Sorbonne's Institute for the Aesthetics of Contemporary Arts, France CLAUS CLÜVER is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Indiana University, USAAXEL ENGLUND is a Doctoral Candidate in Comparative Literature at Stockholm University, SwedenHAJNAL KIRÁLY is a freelance film critic, presently translator at the Cardiff, UK, office of Thomson Reuters news agencySIGURD KVÆRNDRUP is a researcher at the University of Växjö, SwedenCHRISTINA LJUNGBERG is Adjunct Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Zurich, SwitserlandJÜRGEN E. MÜLLER is Professor and Chair of the Media Department at the University of Bayreuth, GermanyÁGNES PETH? is Associate Professor at the Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, and the Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaIRINA O. RAJEWSKY is Associate Professor of Italian and French Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin, GermanyVALERIE ROBILLARD is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Culture at the University of Groningen, The NetherlandsHÅKAN SANDGREN is Senior Lecturer in Swedish and Comparative Literature at Kristianstad University College, SwedenKATALIN SÁNDOR is Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Letters of Babe? BolyaiUniversity, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaREGINA SCHOBER is a Doctoral Candidate in American Studies at Leibniz University, Hanover, GermanySAMI SJÖBERG is a researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland

• Introduction: L.Elleström PART I: MEDIA, MODALITIES, AND MODES The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations; L.Elleström PART II: MEDIA BORDERS OF QUALIFIED MEDIA Border Talks: The Problematic Status of Media Borders in the Current Debate about Intermediality; I.Rajewsky Intermedial Topography and Metaphorical Interaction; A.Englund Intermedial Strategies in Multimedia Art; C.Ljungberg PART III: COMBINATIONS AND INTEGRATIONS OF MEDIA 'Media' before 'Media' Were Invented: The Medieval Ballad and the Romanesque Church; S.Kværndrup The Intermediality of Field Guides: Notes Towards a Theory; H.Sandgren Media on the Edge of Nothingness: Visual Apostrophes in Lettrism ; S.Sjöberg PART IV: MEDIATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF MEDIA Penrose, 'Seeing is Believing': Intentionality, Mediation, and Comprehension in the Arts; S.Bruhn Beyond Definition: A Pragmatic Approach to Intermediality ; V.Robillard Translating Sounds: Intermedial Exchanges in Amy Lowell's 'Stravinsky's Three Pieces "Grotesques" for String Quartet'; R.Schober 'Transgenic Art': The Biopoetry of Eduardo Kac; C.Clüver Photo/graphic Traces in Dubravka Ugresic's The Museum of Unconditional Surrender ; K.Sándor The Dance of Intermediality: Attempt to a Semiotic Approach of Medium Specificity and Intermediality in Film; H.Király Media in the Cinematic Imagination: Ekphrasis and the Poetics of the In-Between in Jean-Luc Godard's Cinema; A.Peth? PART V: THE BORDERS OF MEDIA BORDERS Heteromediality; J.Bruhn Intermediality Re-Visited: Some Reflections about Basic Principles of this Axe de pertinence ; J.E.Müller Notes Bibliography Index