Memory, Intermediality, and Literature: "Something to Hold on To"

ISBN-13: 9781032092850 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 280 str.

Sara Tanderup Linkis

Opis

This book investigates how selected literary works use intermedial strategies to represent and perform cultural memory. Drawing on the theoretical perspectives of cultural memory studies, new materialism and intermediality studies, it analyzes works by Alexander Kluge, W.G. Sebald, and more.

Recenzje

If readers of Sara Tanderup’s "Something to hold on to …" open the book in the expectation of entering a niche of literature and literary studies, they will leave it after having encountered a new highway in literature. Here, the traditional theme of memory and the most recent use of digital media merge into a new understanding of the role of the book in the contemporary media landscape and of vicissitudes of memorial processes literature, which also offers a broader perspective on literature in human history. Spurred by Sara Tanderup’s sharp eye the readings of texts are lucid, engaging and offers so many ideas that teachers will renew their curricula, and readers will open the internet for more or rush to the library.

Spis treści

Introduction PART I. Close-Ups and Counter-Stories. Image-Texts and Photo-Novels by Kluge, Sebald And Foer  1. Image-Books and Modern Visual Culture  2. History between Media. Kluge’s Literary Montages  3. Present Pasts. Sebald’s Image-texts  4. History Close up. Foer’s Broken Books  PART II. Books Between Media. Scrapbooks, Library Books and Flying Books by Carson, Hegnhøj, Abrams and Dorst, and Joyce  5. Remembering Books  6. Bits of Books in Boxes. Carson’s and Hegnhøj’s Scrapbooks  7. The Book Between Media. Abrams and Dorst’s S.  8. Bookishness beyond the Book? Lessmore’s Flying Books

O autorze

Sara Tanderup Linkis holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Aarhus University. She is currently employed as a postdoc at Lund University. Her research focuses on intermediality, transmediality, cultural memory and media oriented literary analysis, and she has published several articles in internationally acclaimed journals such as Narrative, Orbis Litterarum and Image & Narrative.