The study of intermediality explores the exchangeability of expressive means and aesthetic conventions between different art and media forms, a trend amplified and enabled by the digital age. It has become a powerful structuring concept in digital humanities, where traditional boundaries between disciplines as well as genres are being eroded. Contributors to this volume discuss the concepts of intermediality and digital humanities from a range of theoretical perspectives. While in the humanities, generally, there is continued focus on traditional textuality, this up-to-date collection demonstrates the explosive potential of new forms of hypermedia studies to transform our understanding of a range of genres.
Preface, by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
Language and Culture in African Postcolonial Literature, by Kwaku Asante-Darko
The Goethean Concept of World Literature and Comparative Literature, by Hendrik Birus
Comparative Literature in India, by Amiya Dev
Interliterariness as a Concept in Comparative Literature, by Marián Gálik
The Impact of Globalization and the New Media on the Notion of World Literature, by Ernst Grabovszki
The Culture of the Context: Comparative Literature Past and Future, by Jan Walsh Hokenson
On Literariness: From Post-Structuralism to Systems Theory, by Marko Juvan
Comparative Literature and the Ideology of Metaphor, East and West, by Karl S.Y. Kao
Comparative Literature in Slovenia, by Krištof Jacek Kozak
Comparative Literature in the United States, by Manuela Mourão
Comparative Literature and Cultural Identity, by Jola Škulj
Theory, Period Styles, and Comparative Literature as Discipline, by Slobodan Sucur
Popular and Highbrow Literature: A Comparative View, by Peter Swirski
Comparative Literature as Textual Anthropology, by Antony Tatlow
Analyzing East/West Power Politics in Comparative Cultural Studies, by William H. Thornton
From Comparative Literature Today Toward Comparative Cultural Studies, by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
Comparative Literature in China, by Xiaoyi Zhou and Q. S. Tong
Toward Comparative Cultural Studies: A Selected Bibliography of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies (Theories, Methods, Histories 1835 to 2002), by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven Aoun, and Wendy C. Nielsen
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Index