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.

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