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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 Cortazar 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
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Framing Borders in Literature and Other Media STUDIES IN INTERMEDIALITY (SIM) 1 Executive Editor: Walter Bernhart, Graz Series Editors: Lawrence Kramer, New York Hans Lund, Lund Ansgar Nünning, Gießen Werner Wolf, Graz The book series STUDIES IN INTERMEDIALITY (SIM), launched in 2006, is devoted to scholarly research in the field of Intermedia Studies and, thus, in the broadest sense, addresses all phenomena in-volving more than one communicative medium. More specifically, it concerns itself with the wide range of relationships established among the various media and investigates how concepts, of a more general character, find diversified manifestations and reflections in the diffe-rent media. The book series is related to, and part of, the activities of the Intermediality Programme of the Humanities Faculty at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz/Austria. STUDIES IN INTERMEDIALITY (SIM) publishes, generally on an annual basis, theme-oriented volumes, documenting and critically as-sessing the scope, theory, methodology, and the disciplinary and in-stitutional dimensions and prospects of Intermedia Studies on an inter-national scale: conference proceedings, university lecture series, col-lections of scholarly essays, and, occasionally, monographs on per-tinent individual topics reflecting more general issues. Framing Borders in Literature and Other Media Edited by Werner Wolf and Walter Bernhart Amsterdam - New York, NY 2006 Cover-Illustration: Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts. Painting Turned Round (c. 1670-1675). Oil on canvas. 26 x 34 inches. Copenhagen, State Museum of Art The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents Requirements for permanence”. ISBN: 90-420-1789-9 ©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam – New York, NY 2006 Printed in The Netherlands Contents Preface .............................................................................................. vii Werner Wolf I