![]() ![]() Title: Celebrating Apollinaire on the One Hundredth Anniversary of his Death LEARN MORE about "Other Feminisms: Four Indian Women Artists" The discussion will be moderated by Lan-ying Tseng, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU Michelle Wang, Department of Art and Art History, Georgetown University, will speak on architecture, sculpture, and materiality on the Silk Road. The talk centers around two case studies that themselves express this tension: the life of Saint Benedict and miracles involving water and fish. The talk highlights the ways in which this text harbors traces of an ecological understanding of sanctity and examines the translation of that understanding into the representational art of medieval Italy, primarily wall paintings, manuscript illuminations, and architectural sculpture. 604), one of the most widely distributed texts of the early Middle Ages. This talk explores the exchange between humans and nature in the sanctification of the Italian peninsula using as a heuristic the miracles presented in the Dialogues of Pope Gregory I (d. As recent research in history, literature, and art history has shown, ecological considerations were also very much present in representational strategies, sites, and materials. Processes of Christianization are typically understood through this latter anthropological lens: the arrival of holy persons, the teaching of Christian history and principles, the construction and embellishment of churches and related structures. On the other hand, specific locations were constituted as nodes of concentrated sanctity, primarily through human activities that summoned, witnessed, or were abetted by the divine. ![]() ![]() On the one hand, the natural world and all it contains were God’s creation in this sense divinity inhered within. ![]() Wolfram R.Medieval Latin Christianity harbored at its core a paradox in terms of the presence of the sacred in the world. Noha Hamdy: Revisiting Transmediality: 9/11 Between Spectacle and Narrative Susanne Gruss: Shakespeare in Bollywood? Vishal Bhardwaj’s OmkaraĪmira Nowaira: Text and Pretext: Reading Cultural and Ideological Paradigms in the Hollywood and Egyptian Movie Adaptations of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina Sonja Fielitz: Fish and Chips with Marshmallows? Possibilities and Limitations of Trans-Cultural Intermediality Joachim Frenk and Christian Krug: Handovers of Empire: Transatlantic Transmissions in Popular Culture Nicola Glaubitz: Transcribing Images – Reassembling Cultures: Kazuo Ishiguro’s Japan Samperi: “No Text Just Comes out Ex Nihilo, It Always Comes out of Other Texts”: Christine Brooke-Rose’s Thru Visual Encounters Sarah Säckel: What’s in a Wodehouse? (Non-) Subversive Shakespearean Intertextualities in P.G. Irina Bauder-Begerow: Echoing Dickens: Three Rewritings of Great Expectations Walter Göbel: Washington Irving’s “Rip van Winkle”, A Postcolonial Reading or: In Search of a Usable Past Georgiana Banita: Affect, Kitsch and Transnational Literature: Azar Nafisi’s “Portable Worlds” Coetzee’s Dusklands (1974) and Matthew Kneale’s English Passengers (2000) Renate Brosch: Migrating Images and Communal ExperienceĬaroline Lusin: Encountering Darkness: Intertextuality and Polyphony in J.M. Harish Trivedi: Anglophone Transnation, Postcolonial Translation: The Book and the Film as Namesakes Mary Orr: Intertextuality: Old Debates in New Contexts The volume’s combination of theoretical discussions and case studies, which predominantly deal with ‘English classics’ and their rewritings, film adaptations and/or rereadings, will mainly attract graduate students and scholars working on contemporary literary theory, visual culture and postcolonial literatures. by Genette) and (b) the widening of the concept towards visual and digital culture govern the structure of the volume, questions of the transnational and/or postcolonial form a recurrent subtext. While (a) the dimension of the intertextual in the traditional sense (as specified e.g. Commencing with three theoretical contributions, which work towards the creation of frameworks under which intertextuality can be (re)viewed today, the volume then explores textual and visual encounters in a number of case studies. Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation aims at opening up scholarly debates on the contemporary challenges of intertextuality in its various intersections with postcolonial and visual culture studies. ![]()
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