Framing borders in literature and other media / edited by Werner Wolf and Walter Bernhart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bernhart, Walter.

Wolf, Werner, 1955-

Series:

Studies in intermediality (SIM) ; 1.

Studies in intermediality (SIM) ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Psychological aspects--Congresses.

Arts.

Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts)--Congresses.

Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts).

Boundaries in literature--Congresses.

Boundaries in literature.

Frame-stories--Congresses.

Frame-stories.

Motion pictures--Aesthetics--Congresses.

Motion pictures.

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics--Congresses.

Music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 482 pages) : illustrations, music.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is both a contribution to an interdisciplinary study of literature and other media and a pioneering application of cognitive and frame-theoretical approaches to these fields. In the temporal media a privileged place for the coding of cognitive frames are the beginnings while in spatial media physical borders take over many framing functions. This volume investigates forms and functions of such framing spaces from a transmedial perspective by juxtaposing and comparing the framing potential of individual media and works. After an introductory theoretical essay, which aims to clarify basic concepts, the volume presents eighteen contributions by scholars from various disciplines who deal with individual media. The first section is dedicated to framing in or through the visual arts and includes discussions of the illustrations of medieval manuscripts, the practice of framing pictures from the Middle Ages to Magritte and contemporary American art as well as framings in printmaking and architecture. The second part deals with literary texts and ranges from studies centred on framings in frame stories to essays focussing on the use of paratextual, textual and non-verbal media in the framings of classical, medieval and modern German and American narrative literature; moreover, it includes studies on defamiliarized framings, e.g. by Julio Cortázar and Jasper Fforde, as well as an essay on end-framing practices. Sections on framings in film (including the trailers of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings ) and in music (operatic overtures and Schumann's piano pieces) provide perspectives on further media. The volume is of relevance to students and scholars from various fields: intermedia studies, cognitive approaches to the media, literary and film studies, history of art, and musicology.

Contents:

Preface

Werner WOLF: Introduction: Frames, Framings and Framing Borders in Literature and Other Media

Framing in/through the Visual Arts

Anja GREBE: Frames and Illusion: The Function of Borders in Late Medieval Book Illumination

Vera BEYER: How to Frame the Vera Icon ?

Götz POCHAT: Framing, Actual and Virtual: The Crossing of St. Peter's in Rome

Patricia ALLMER: Framing the Real: Frames and the Processes of Framing in René Magritte's Œuvre

Daniel F. HERRMANN: Touching Upon Framing: Medial Conditions of Printmaking in Dieter Roth's Komposition I-V (1977-1992)

Richard PHELAN: The Picture Frame in Question: American Art 1945-2000

Framing in/of Literary Texts

Werner WOLF: Framing Borders in Frame Stories

Haiko WANDHOFF: Found(ed) in a Picture: Ekphrastic Framing in Ancient, Medieval, and Contemporary Literature

Christian QUENDLER: Frame Analysis and Its Contribution to a Historical and Cultural Theory of Literary Fiction: A Comparison of Initial Framings in James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy and Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans

Till DEMBECK: (Paratextual) Framing and the Work of Art: E.T.A. Hoffmann's Prinzessin Brambilla

Werner WOLF: Defamiliarized Initial Framings in Fiction

Maria STEFANESCU: The (Dis)Continuity of Framings

Margarete RUBIK: Frames and Framings in Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair

Remigius BUNIA: Framing the End

Framing in Film

Roy SOMMER: Initial Framings in Film

Erik HEDLING: Framing Tolkien: Trailers, High Concept, and the Ring

Framing in Music

Michael WALTER: Framing and Deframing the Opera: The Overture

Walter BERNHART: Narrative Framing in Schumann's Piano Pieces

Notes on Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Sixteen of the eighteen case studies are "revised contributions to a conference on 'Framing in Literature and Other Media' held in Graz in June 2004"--P. 11.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0202-8

1-4237-9108-8

OCLC:

714568433

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401202022 DOI