Publisher's Synopsis
This collection of essays is devoted to intertextuality as an interdisciplinary phenomenon of particular interest to students of comparative literature and, more specifically, the comparative arts. Focusing on German culture between the 16th and 20th centuries, this volume attempts an overview of the subject and offers suggestions for a yet-to-established typologu of pertinent artistic modes and genes.;Most of the essays explore the potential of the concept of intertextuality as paving the way for innovative approaches to old comparative groupings such as literature and art, literature and photography, textuality and film. Other, more exclusively methodological articles address perennial problems of comparative arts analysis, with attention to general terminological questions and from fresh theoretical perspectives.
