Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation (Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen Und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)

Säckel, Sarah (Editor)/ Göbel, Walter (Editor)/ Hamdy, Noha (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9042027142 / ISBN 13: 9789042027145

Published by Rodopi Bv Editions, 2009

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276 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation (Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen Und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft)
• Publisher: Rodopi Bv Editions
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042027142
• ISBN 13: 9789042027145
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.41 kilograms

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Synopsis

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. 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. While (a) the dimension of the intertextual in the traditional sense (as specified e.g. 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. 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.