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Mass media --- Intermediality --- Médias --- Intermédialité --- Intermediality. --- Mass media.

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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.

Arts --- Borders, Ornamental (Decorative arts) --- Boundaries in literature --- Film. --- Frame-stories --- Intermedialität. --- Kunst. --- Literatur. --- Motion pictures --- Music --- Musik. --- Rahmen. --- Ästhetik. --- Psychological aspects --- Aesthetics --- Philosophy and aesthetics --- Graz --- Bordures (Arts décoratifs) --- Frontières dans la littérature --- Récits enchâssés --- Cinéma --- Musique --- Congresses. --- Aspect psychologique --- Congrès --- Esthétique --- Philosophie et esthétique --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Prologues and epilogues --- Short story --- Tales --- Ornamental borders (Decorative arts) --- Decoration and ornament --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- History and criticism --- Arts, Primitive

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Ulrich Weisstein, an international authority in the fields of comparative literature and comparative arts, has been a pioneer paving the way for present-day intermedia studies. Among his broad intermedial interests opera has always held a central place. For the first time this volume makes available his major contributions to opera criticism in compact form, thus meeting a serious scholarly demand. The necessarily stringent selection of essays from Professor Weisstein's large output on opera, reflecting fifty years of involvement with the genre, is primarily governed by the wish to present texts that are representative of their author's work and, at the same time, are unlikely to be readily available through other channels. The fourteen essays collected are arranged in chronological order, some of them showing Ulrich Weisstein as an initiator of librettology, others tracing adaptive processes extending from textual sources to final operas, or investigating writer/composer collaborations. Further topics are satirical reflections on operatic activities in early-eighteenth-century Italy and practices of opera censorship, artist operas or definitions of romantic and epic opera. The essays are written in an accessible, essentially non-technical language and are expected to make both a profitable and a pleasurable reading for literary scholars as well as musicologists and general art lovers.

Opera. --- Dramatic music --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Opera --- Opera, Comic --- Operas --- Drama --- Singspiel --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism