Keywords: intersemioticity;translation;interdisciplinarity;Alina Kwiatkowska
The chapter presents the rationale behind the volume and some of its major premises. It points to a range of nuanced questions – e.g. of terminological or conceptual character – that are associated with the research endeavor taken up by the contributors.
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Keywords: Alina Kwiatkowska;remembering
This text talks from the author’s personal, professional and scholarly perspective about the late Professor Alina Kwiatkowska who initiated and inspired the “Moving between Modes” volume. 7. językoznawstwo
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Keywords: media;transformation;transfer;communication
The chapter aims to develop a new theoretical framework for the study of media characteristic transfer, which Elleström calls media transformation. The goal of the framework is to explain what happens when meaningful data is changed or corrupted during transfer among different media, and how an in-depth understanding of such processes may influence understanding communication.
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Keywords: translation;intersemiosis;modalities
The chapter uses an unfolding metaphor for journeys articulated in the context of translation and intersemiosis in order to discuss different theories and approaches in a synchronic perspective.
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Keywords: intersemiotic translation;polysemioticity
The chapter sketches the distinction between several allied and complementary notions related to intersemioticity, polysemioticity and translation, and illustrates it with examples pertaining to the proposed categories.
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Keywords: intersemiotics;intermedial studies;borderline phenomena;music
With the author’s literary and musicological background, the chapter demonstrates her own search for adequate tools to explore artistic projects of a transgressive nature, commonly referred to as borderline phenomena.
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Keywords: visible;legible;Raymond Pettibon;non-verbal sign systems
The chapter reasserts the inexorable affinity and proximity between the verbal and the visual in Pettibon’s work while questioning some persistent notions on the differences between language and non-verbal sign systems.
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Keywords: anamorphosis;communication;concrete poetry;Edwin Morgan
The chapter studies various examples of playful intersemiotic translation in Edwin Morgan’s verbivocovisual poetry with an emphasis on a number of aesthetic traditions that inform Morgan’s writing.
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Keywords: intersemiotic translation;experimentation;Franciszka Themerson;Gaberbocchus Press
The chapter looks at fascinating examples of intersemiotic experimentation in books published by the Gaberbocchus Press. It asks the question how the visual presentation influences our perception of literature.
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Keywords: Bacon; Friedman;ciphering; Stefan Themerson;poetry; painting
The chapter traces the history of the Baconian-Friedman ciphering, and shows that the practice of translating anything to anything has found its way to poetry, painting, and experimental cinema, as can be exemplified by Stefan Themerson’s Semantic Poetry.
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Keywords: verbo-musical metaphor;multi-modal rhetoric;intersubjectivity;music;persuasion
The chapter focuses on an intermodal translation from music to language and back on the basis of Daniel Barenboim’s BBC Reith Lectures of 2006.
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Keywords: voice;text;music;intersemioticity;intermediality;James Chapman;Bernd Alois Zimmermann
The chapter employs Roman Jakobson’s understanding of intersemiotic translation as transmutation from one sign system to another, analysing two works belonging to different modalities, namely Alois Zimmermann’s composition Requiem füreinenjungenDichter (1969) and James Chapman’s novel How Is This Going to Continue? (2007).
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Keywords: Lied;intermediality;literature;music
The chapter concerns the literature-music interface, presenting the problems that can be encountered in translating songs with reference to German Leider.
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Keywords: intersemiotic reference;music;intertexuality;James Joice
The chapter pursues the motif of music and musicality inscribed into James Joyce’s Ulysses.
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Keywords: semiotic systems;music;literature;intersemotics
The chapter discusses the issue of literature musicality understood as mutual transposition of semantic and aesthetic information from music into fiction.
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Keywords: interlingual literary translation;film adaptation;re-adaptation;Jane Austen
The chapter reflects on an analogy between interlingual translation and film adaptations of classical novels in the context of intersemiotic translation.
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Keywords: adaptation;transposition;Charles Dickens;adaptation;South Park
The chapter investigates an episode of South Park dedicated to Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, presenting it as a science-fictional rereading that modernizes the original story.
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Keywords: Film;immaterialism;spiritualism;George Berkeley;Samuel Beckett
The chapter adopts a philosophically-oriented approach to discuss the influence of George Berkley’s thought on Film by Samuel Beckett.
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Keywords: communication;semiotics;intersemioticity;non-verbal communication
The chapter focuses on the semiotic aspects of nonverbal features of communication.
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Keywords: photography;serialization;multiplication;Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
The chapter offers a semiotic reflection on the aspects of serialization and multiplication of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s portrait representations and their photographic transpositions.
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