While intermediality is currently en vogue, poetics has somehow gone out of fashion. The authors of this publication bring these two approaches together into an organic whole in an exploration of a narrative as manifest in various genres of art and media and their mutual relations, covering the transformation of Beatrice Cenci’s Rennaisance narrative in European and American literature and visual art, David Lynch’s film Mullholand Drive or the shifts in serial adaptations of classics (such as Dickens‘ ouvre) spurred on by the developments in television technology or changes in the requirements of public TV channels.
An intermedia approach, which combines knowledge with methods utilised in history of art, literary and film theory or media studies, however, doesn’t necessarily mean that the book is aimed at readers from these fields only. The authors strived to write in a way that would chime with those who transgress the borders of these fields but also those interested in visual art, literature or film, who not only gaze at the images flickering on TV screens but also think deeper about the structure of the next part of a series....Published in cooperation with the Institute of Czech Literature at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
