Autor(en)

Hinz, Evelyn J. (ed.):

Verlag / Jahr

Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 1995.

Format / Einband

Paperback. XXIV, 186 p.

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 550 g

Bestell-Nr

1201560

Bemerkungen

leicht berieben, kleine Verschmutzungen auf Cover, Buchrücken verfärbt, Bleistifteintrag auf Titelblatt / slightly rubbed, small soiling on cover, spine discolored, pencil entry on title page. - Contents Joseph Donatelli and Why Media Matters: An Introduction Geoffrey Winthrop-Young A. S. G. Edwards Chaucer from Manuscript to Print: The Social Text and the Critical Text As Chaucer’s works move from manuscript to print we see the ways in which his own oeuvre is reconstituted. This essay examines some of the implications of media change involved in this movement, both in relation to particular texts, the canon in general and the related editorial issues. Michelle R. Wright Interpreting Codicology: Re-visions of the Divine Comedy in the Codex Altona Focusing on the intentional and accidental features of medieval manuscripts, this essay explores how the Codex Altona draws attention to the page as a medium of representation and to the interpretive role of illustrations. The reader’s moral progress is shown to depend on hermeneutic skill in a context that relates artistic achievement to pride and avarice. R. John Rice and A Funny Thing Happened on the Paul M. Malone Way to the Theater: Negotiating Meaning and Technology in Performance Building on a historical perspective of theater as a written and performed medium, the authors examine the directions that theater might take with the development of “virtual reality” technologies. Documenting the potentials and shortcomings of V. R. within theatricality, their concern is with those conventions goveming the negotiation of meaning(s) in performance. Staart Moulthrop Traveling in the Breakdown Lane: A Principle of Resistance for Hypertext The recent advent of hypertext, or electronic “non-sequential writing,” poses significant challenges for literary artists and critics. There is something seductive and inviting about this medium, but also something that inspires resistance. This essay looks beyond reactionary responses to evaluate the ethic of resistance inherent in hypertext itself. William Anthony Nericcio Artif[r]acture: Virulent Pictures, Graphic Narrative and the Ideology of the Visual Arguing that the mestizo dynamics of comic books (one part line art, one part cinema, one part prose fiction) demand critical scrutiny, this essay examines provocative examples from the world of “graphic narratives,” with particular focus on the work of Gilbert and Jaime Hemandez. An overall concern is the political and pedagogical implications of the current shift from word-driven to image-centered discourse. Elizabeth Klaver Coming Attractions: Theater and the Performance of Television Coming Attractions explores a world of images, commodities and consumer desire by following the rise of a serial killer to celebrity status. This essay argues that, by enacting and contesting televisual discourse, the play is able to reconsider the place of theater in a media culture and the effect of media on notions of selfhood. Mario Klarer Orality and Literacy as Gender-Supporting Structures in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale Focusing on The Handmaid’s Tale, this essay explores the way that concepts of orality and literacy are gender-coded, and the way that aspects of orality can be politically cultivated to prevent the destabilizing potential of written discourse. Joseph Tabbi The Technology of Quotation: William Gaddis’s J R and Contemporary Media The convergence of technology and postmodern theory pro vides an opportunity to reconsider the distinctive esthetic of William Gaddis. His work opens a new representational space—that of the media of corporate connection and reproduction—through the figuration of advanced technology and contemporary “materialities of communication.” Joseph Donatelli and Literature and Media Change: Geoffrey Winthrop-Young A Selective Multidisciplinary Bibliography Index to Volume 28.

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