The Intermediality of Narrative Literature Medialities Matter / [electronic resource] :
by Jørgen Bruhn.
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK(Imprint), 2016.
- VII, 134 p. online resource.
Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is Mediality, and (How) does it Matter? Theoretical Terms and Methodology -- 3. Speak, Memory? Vladimir Nabokov, "Spring in Fialta" -- 4. "This beats tapes, doesn't it?" - Women, cathedrals, and other medialities in Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" -- 5. "Great script, eh?" - Medialities, metafiction and non-meaning in Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the brain" -- 6. Between punk and PowerPoint: Authenticity versus medialities in Jennifer Egan's A visit from the goon squad -- 7. Afterthoughts -- Bibliography -- Index.-.
This book argues that narrative literature very often, if not always, include significant amounts of what appears to be extra-literary material - in form and in content - and that we too often ignore this dimension of literature. It offers an up to date overview and discussion of intermedial theory, and it facilitates a much-needed dialogue between the burgeoning field of intermedial studies on the one side and the already well-developed methods of literary analysis on the other. The book aims at working these two fields together into a productive working method. It makes evident, in a methodologically succinct way, the necessity of approaching literature with an intermedial terminology by way of a relatively simple but never the less productive three-step analytic method. In four in-depth case studies of Anglophone texts ranging from Nabokov, Chandler and Tobias Wolff to Jennifer Egan, it demonstrates that medialities matter.