Intermediality, life writing, and American studies : interdisciplinary perspectives /
This collection of essays gathers innovative and compelling research on intermedial forms of life writing by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars. Among their subjects of scrutiny are biographies, memoirs, graphic novels, performances, paratheatricals, musicals, silent films, mov...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH,
2018
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| Series: | Buchreihe der Anglia ;
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Table of Contents:
- Intermediality, life writing, and American studies: a brief introduction / Nassim Winnie Balestrini and Ina Bergmann
- Making an entrance, illustrating a life: remediating Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography in nineteenth-century America / Christopher J. Lukasik
- Illustrations "more numerous than we could have expected": biography as "mixed media" in William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879: The Story of His Life Told by His Children (1885-1889) / Hélène Quanquin
- Performing lives in nineteenth-century US-American culture: from paratheatricals to early cinema / Margit Peterfy
- Lenny: (auto- )biography, black-and-white, and juxtapositional montage in Bob Fosse's Hollywood renaissance biopic / Dennis Bingham
- The remediation of Little Edie: from it-girl to loony cat lady to cultural icon / Ina Bergmann
- Graphic musical biography: an intermedial case of musico-comical life writing / Daniel Stein
- Ekphrastic encounters and word-photography configurations in contemporary transcultural American life writing / Gabriele Rippl
- "A figment of someone else's imagination": intermedial games in Paul Auster's Report from the Interior / Danuta Fjellestad
- Auto-assembling the self on social networking sites: intermediality and transnational kinship in online academic life writing / Silvia Schultermandl
- Intermedial on/offstage auto/biography: Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, hip hop, and historiography / Nassim Winnie Balestrini
- Emily Dickinson, intermediality, and life writing: an interview with Susan Snively / Ina Bergmann
- The respectful biographer's empathetic imagination: an interview about intermediality and life writing with Brenda Wineapple.
