Intermediality and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century

Herausgegeben:Wagner, Hans-Peter

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Produktdetails

• LAPASEC (Landau Paris Studies on the Eighteenth Century) 6
• Verlag: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 155mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9783868217896
• ISBN-10: 3868217894
• Artikelnr.: 55986798

Autorenporträt

Wagner, Hans-PeterHans-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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Objects
À 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