Relational Designs in Literature and the Arts: Page and Stage, Canvas and Screen: 158 (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9042035811 ISBN 13: 9789042035812

Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V., 2012

Synopsis

This collection focuses on texts that address the other arts - from painting to photography, from the stage to the screen, and from avant-garde experiments to mass culture. Despite their diversity of object and approach, the essays in Relational Designs coalesce around the argument that representations are defined by relations and dynamics, rather than intrinsic features. This rationale is supported by the discourses and methodologies favoured by the book's contributors: their approaches offer a cross section of the intellectual and critical environment of our time. The book illustrates the critical possibilities that derive from the broad range of modes of inquiry - poststructuralist criticism, gender studies, postcolonial studies, new historicism - that the book's four sections bring to bear on a wealth of intermedial practices. But Relational Designs compounds such critical emphases with the voice of the practitioner: the book is rounded off by an interview in which a contemporary novelist discusses her attraction to the other arts in terms that extend the book's insights and bridge the gap between academic discourse and artistic practice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 9042035811
• ISBN 13: 9789042035812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Carvalho Homem Rui