Selected Essays on Intermediality by Werner Wolf (1992–2014)

Werner Wolf is Professor and Chair of English and General Literature at the University of Graz, Austria. Main areas of research: literary theory (aesthetic illusion, narratology, metafiction/metareference), functions of literature, 18th- to 21st-century English fiction, intermediality studies (including word–music and word–image relationships). Walter Bernhart is emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Graz, president of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA), executive editor of Word and Music Studies (WMS) and Studies in Intermediality (SIM); his collected essays on literature and music were published as WMS 14 (2015).

• ContentsPrefaceWalter BernhartPart I: Intermediality: Theory and Typology1 Intermedialität als neues Paradigma der Literaturwissenschaft? Plädoyer für eine literaturzentrierte Erforschung der Grenzüberschreitungen zwischen Wortkunst und anderen Medien am Beispiel von Virginia Woolfs “The String Quartet” [1996]2 Towards a Functional Analysis of Intermediality: The Case of Twentieth-Century Musicalized Fiction [2002]3 Intermedialität – ein weites Feld und eine Herausforderung für die Literaturwissenschaft [2002]4 Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Übertragung literaturwissenschaftlicher Terminologie auf Gegenstände der Kunstwissenschaft: Überlegungen zu einem Weg interdisziplinärer Verständigung am Beispiel von ‘Erzählsituationen’ und ‘Metafiktion’ [2007]5 The Relevance of Mediality and Intermediality to Academic Studies of English Literature [2008]6 Intermedialität und mediale Dominanz: typologisch, funktionsgeschichtlich und akademisch-institutionell betrachtet [2010]7 Intermedialität: Konzept, literaturwissenschaftliche Relevanz, Typologie intermedialer Formen [2014]Part II: Literature-Music Relations8 Can Stories Be Read as Music? Possibilities and Limitations of Applying Musical Metaphors to Fiction [1992]9 Musicalized Fiction and Intermediality: Theoretical Aspects of Word and Music Studies [1999]10 "Willst zu meinen Liedern deine Leier drehn?": Intermedial Metatextuality in Schubert’s “Der Leiermann” as a Motivation for Song and Accompaniment and a Contribution to the Unity of Die Winterreise [2001]11 Language and/or Music as Man’s 'Comfort'? Beckett’s Metamedial Allegory Words and Music [2005]12 Metafiction and Metamusic: Exploring the Limits of Metareference [2007]13 Metamusic? Potentials and Limits of ‘Metareference’ in Instrumental Music: Theoretical Reflections and a Case Study (Mozart’s Ein musikalischer Spaß) [2010]Part III: Transmedial Narratology14 Das Problem der Narrativität in Literatur, bildender Kunst und Musik: Ein Beitrag zu einer intermedialen Erzähltheorie [2002]15 Narrative and Narrativity: A Narratological Reconceptualization and its Applicability to the Visual Arts [2003]16 Narrativity in Instrumental Music? A Prototypical Narratological Approach to a Vexed Question [2008]17 Narratology and Media(lity): The Transmedial Expansion of a Literary Discipline and Possible Consequences [2011]18 Framings of Narrative in Literature and the Pictorial Arts [2014]Part IV: Miscellaneous Transmedial Phenomena19 Intermedial Iconicity in Fiction – Tema con variazioni [2003]20 Metalepsis as a Transgeneric and Transmedial Phenomenon: A Case Study of the Possibilities of ‘Exporting’ Narratological Concepts [2005]21 Mise en cadre – a Neglected Counterpart to mise en abyme: A Frame-theoretical and Intermedial Complement to Classical Narratology [2010]22 Wiederholung bzw. Ähnlichkeit in der (Sprach-)Kunst als sinnstiftende formale Selbstreferenz [2014]SourcesBibliography of Publications on Intermediality by Werner WolfIndex