Distinguished literary and film theorists convene to engage with
Garrett Stewart's twenty books of inter-medial analysis, shelved
across several disciplines, in a collection of essays as multifaceted
and resonant as Stewart's own writing. Critical luminaries from the
fields of literary and film studies assess the methods and scope of
Garrett Stewart's career-long work across the fields of literary
history and poetics, cinema and media studies. The unprecedented scope
of Stewart's interests also embraces certain lines of development in
art history down through the so-called post-medium condition,
including abstract as well as figurative painting, conceptual book
sculpture-followed by an interactive e-text monograph on the place of
time-based images in contemporary gallery installation. Through it
all, under the rubric of what Stewart calls “narratography,” there
is a continual return to microplots of fictional phrasing, from
Victorian novels to post-millennial American fiction. Given Stewart's
steadily tuned ear for the play of vocal enunciation, his interests
arc in this way from a performative phonetics of print text to a study
of star-singing on screen. Assorted essays variously analyze directly,
or extrapolate from, Stewart's evolving methodology: a “signature”
analytic intensity tested in its yield on interpretive challenges from
literary prose and art history through cinema theory and screen
stardom. Bandwidths accompanies a companion volume, Attention
Spans-Stewart's “autobiographical,” or better, autophilosophical
chronicle of method and evolution. Contributors to Bandwidths either
address Stewart's aims and achievements directly or build implicitly
on them in fresh investigations of their own. Bandwidths is a rare
window into the genealogy, and contested energies, of interpretive
endeavor, and offers interpretive and methodological interventions
into fields ready to be reminded and recharged by Stewart's stalwart
catalogue of indefatigable literary-critical and intermedial
offerings.
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Reading Across Media with Garrett Stewart
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9798765113004
Publisert
2025
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1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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