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The Intermediality of Narrative Literature

Medialities Matter

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Jørgen Bruhn

    1. Department of Film and Literature, Linnæus University, Växjö, Sweden

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jørgen Bruhn
    Pages 1-11

  3. What is Mediality, and (How) does it Matter? Theoretical Terms and Methodology

    • Jørgen Bruhn
    Pages 13-40

  4. Speak, Memory? Vladimir Nabokov, “Spring in Fialta”

    • Jørgen Bruhn
    Pages 41-59

  5. “This Beats Tapes, Doesn’t It?”: Women, Cathedrals, and Other Medialities in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”

    • Jørgen Bruhn
    Pages 61-82

  6. “Great script, eh?”: Medialities, Metafiction, and Non-meaning in Tobias Wolff’s “Bullet in the Brain”

    • Jørgen Bruhn
    Pages 83-101

  7. Between Punk and PowerPoint: Authenticity Versus Medialities in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad

    • Jørgen Bruhn
    Pages 103-121

  8. Afterthoughts

    • Jørgen Bruhn
    Pages 123-126

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 127-134
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About this book

This book argues that narrative literature very often, if not always, include significant amounts of what appears to be extra-literary material – in form and in content – and that we too often ignore this dimension of literature. 
It offers an up to date overview and discussion of intermedial theory, and it facilitates a much-needed dialogue between the burgeoning field of intermedial studies on the one side and the already well-developed methods of literary analysis on the other. The book aims at working these two fields together into a productive working method. It makes evident, in a methodologically succinct way, the necessity of approaching literature with an intermedial terminology by way of a relatively simple but never the less productive three-step analytic method. In four in-depth case studies of Anglophone texts ranging from Nabokov, Chandler and Tobias Wolff to Jennifer Egan, it demonstrates that medialities matter.

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“Jorgen Bruhn’s Intermediality and Narrative Literature  demonstrates, in specific case studies, how mediality analysis is able to provide valuable interpretations of literary texts. As such, it is an important contribution for those who want to learn how to see literature with “a fresh pair of eyes”.” (Translated from Portuguese, Maria Angélica Amâncio, Revista Criação & Crítica, (16), 2016)


Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Film and Literature, Linnæus University, Växjö, Sweden

    Jørgen Bruhn

About the author

Jørgen Bruhn is Professor of Comparative Literature at Linnæus University, Sweden. His main focus areas are literary theory and criticism, intermediality and media studies, and adaptation studies. In 2013 he edited (with Anne Gjelsvik and Eirik Frisvold Hansen) and contributed to Adaptation Studies: New Challenges, New Directions.

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