Intermediality and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-3-86821-789-6
Verlag: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 416 g

Reihe: LAPASEC (Landau Paris Studies on the Eighteenth Century)

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Wagner, Hans-Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents Foreword .................................................................................................................. vii Introduction ............................................................................................................. 1 HANS-PETER WAGNER Aspects of Theory Media, Genre, Reception and Frame: Putting Terms in Relation ............................ 7 KERSTIN-ANJA MÜNDERLEIN Discursive Intermediality The Circulation of Anecdotes on Female Barrenness in the Eighteenth Century .... 23 SOPHIE VASSET "He Knows Plants and Draws Prettily": Intermediality in William Bartram's Travels ........................................................... 33 MARCEL HARTWIG The Frontiers of the Muses' Territory: Prologue and Epilogue in Eighteenth-century Theatrical Discourse ....................... 49 KERSTIN FEST Generic Intermediality The Success and Signification of The Beggar's Opera (1728) in an Era of Illiteracy, Expensive Acis and Galatea , an Intermedial Exploration ............ 89 JEFFREY HOPES Intermediality, Intertextuality and Interculturality: Echoes of Tom Jones and Marriage à-la-mode in Der Rosenkavalier .................... 99 PIERRE DEGOTT Of Pygmies and Giants: On the Rhizomatous Connections Between Swift's Lilliputians and Dwarfs in Renaissance Art .................................. 115 HANS-PETER WAGNER Manon / Merteuil: An Essay on the Intermediality of French Eighteenth-century Heroines ................................................................... 155 GREGOR SCHUHEN Envisioning Blake in Popular Culture: The Iconotext, Intermediality and the Postmodern Graphic Novel ......................... 167 MARIA SEVERIN Intermediality and ObjectsÀ la recherche du papier perdu – Some Possible Circulations of Waste Paper in Eighteenth-century England .......... 185 GEOFFREY DAY AND AMÉLIE JUNQUA Paper, Ceramics, and Textiles: Eurasia Cross-Media Fertilisation of Motifs and Techniques .................................. 203 ARIANE FENNETAUX Notes on Contributors .............................................................................................. 219

Über Autor(innen)

Wagner, Hans-Peter
Hans-Peter Wagner is professor emeritus of English and American literature at the Landau campus of Universität Koblenz-Landau. He taught at European, American, Asian and African universities and was appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College and Universität Paris-Diderot. He is the editor of several English novels in the Penguin English Classics series and co-editor of TESBA (Teaching English Studies for the Bachelor’s Degree), TESMA (Teaching English Studies for the Master’s Degree) and LAPASEC (Landau-Paris Studies on the Eighteenth Century) with WVT Trier. In his publications, he has covered colonial American culture, Enlightenment literature and art, postmodern American literature and, more recently, the graphic art of William Hogarth and intermediality. His most recent publications are A Survey of American Literature (TESBA vol. 2, 2017) and articles on Samuel Beckett’s usage of the art of Caspar David Friedrich in Waiting of Godot, and Herman Melville’s employment in Moby-Dick of paintings by J.L. David and William Turner.