Rewriting Texts Remaking Images: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

by Leslie Boldt (Editor), Corrado Federici (Editor), Ernesto Virgulti (Editor)

The twenty-four essays in Rewriting Texts Remaking Interdisciplinary Perspectives examine the complex relationships between original creative works and subsequent versions of these originals, from both theoretical and pragmatic perspectives. The process involves the rereading, reinterpretation, and rediscovery of literary texts, paintings, photographs, and films, as well as the consideration of issues pertaining to adaptation, intertextuality, transcodification, ekphrasis, parody, translation, and revision. The interdisciplinary analyses consider works from classical antiquity to the present day, in a number of literatures, and include such topics as the reuse and resemantization of photographs and iconic images.

389 pages, Hardcover

First published May 15, 2010