A groundbreaking collection of essays looking at the concepts of 'intermediality' and 'multimodality' - the relationship between various forms of art and new media - and including case studies ranging from music, film and architecture to medieval ballads, biopoetry and Lettrism.

This groundbreaking collection examines theoretical questions concerning the complex relations between different forms of art and new media

Introduction: L.Elleström PART I: MEDIA, MODALITIES, AND MODES The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations; L.Elleström PART II: MEDIA BORDERS OF QUALIFIED MEDIA Border Talks: The Problematic Status of Media Borders in the Current Debate about Intermediality; I.Rajewsky Intermedial Topography and Metaphorical Interaction; A.Englund Intermedial Strategies in Multimedia Art; C.Ljungberg PART III: COMBINATIONS AND INTEGRATIONS OF MEDIA 'Media' before 'Media' Were Invented: The Medieval Ballad and the Romanesque Church; S.Kværndrup The Intermediality of Field Guides: Notes Towards a Theory; H.Sandgren Media on the Edge of Nothingness: Visual Apostrophes in Lettrism ; S.Sjöberg PART IV: MEDIATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF MEDIA Penrose, 'Seeing is Believing': Intentionality, Mediation, and Comprehension in the Arts; S.Bruhn Beyond Definition: A Pragmatic Approach to Intermediality ; V.Robillard Translating Sounds: Intermedial Exchanges in Amy Lowell's 'Stravinsky's Three Pieces "Grotesques" for String Quartet'; R.Schober 'Transgenic Art': The Biopoetry of Eduardo Kac; C.Clüver Photo/graphic Traces in Dubravka Ugresic's The Museum of Unconditional Surrender ; K.Sándor The Dance of Intermediality: Attempt to a Semiotic Approach of Medium Specificity and Intermediality in Film; H.Király Media in the Cinematic Imagination: Ekphrasis and the Poetics of the In-Between in Jean-Luc Godard's Cinema; A.Peth? PART V: THE BORDERS OF MEDIA BORDERS Heteromediality; J.Bruhn Intermediality Re-Visited: Some Reflections about Basic Principles of this Axe de pertinence ; J.E.Müller Notes Bibliography Index