Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited by: Nassim Winnie Balestrini and Ina Bergmann

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2018

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Volume 61 | Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series

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This collection of essays gathers innovative and compelling research on intermedial forms of life writing by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars. Among their subjects of scrutiny are biographies, memoirs, graphic novels, performances, paratheatricals, musicals, silent films, movies, documentary films, and social media. The volume covers a time frame ranging from the nineteenth century to the immediate present. In addition to a shared focus on theories of intermediality and life writing, the authors apply to their subjects both firmly established and cutting-edge theoretical approaches from Cultural Narratology, Cultural History, Biographical Studies, Social Media Studies, Performance Studies, and Visual Culture Studies. The collection also features interviews with practitioners in biography who have produced monographs, films, and novels.

The scholarly essays and the interviews with practitioners cover an extensive range of media that engage in intermedial life writing
The contributing scholars, who are based in North America and Europe, represent multiple disciplines

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Nassim Winnie Ballestrini, University of Graz, Austria; Ina Bergmann, University of Würzburg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	VII
Intermediality, Life Writing, and American Studies: A Brief Introduction Nassim Winnie Balestrini and Ina Bergmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Making an Entrance, Illustrating a Life: Remediating Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
Illustrations “More Numerous Than We Could Have Expected”: Biography as “Mixed Media” in William Lloyd Garrison, 1805–1879: The Story of His Life Told by His Children (1885–1889) Hélène Quanquin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	35
Performing Lives in Nineteenth-Century US-American Culture: From Paratheatricals to Early Cinema Margit Peterfy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	51
Lenny: (Auto‐)biography, Black-and-White, and Juxtapositional Montage in Bob Fosse’s Hollywood Renaissance Biopic Dennis Bingham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
The Remediation of Little Edie: From It-Girl to Loony Cat Lady to Cultural Icon Ina Bergmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	99
Graphic Musical Biography: An Intermedial Case of Musico-Comical Life Writing Daniel Stein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
Ekphrastic Encounters and Word– Photography Configurations in Contemporary Transcultural American Life Writing Gabriele Rippl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	147
“A Figment of Someone Elseʼs Imagination”: Intermedial Games in Paul Austerʼs Report from the Interior Danuta Fjellestad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
Auto-Assembling the Self on Social Networking Sites: Intermediality and Transnational Kinship in Online Academic Life Writing Silvia Schultermandl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	191
Intermedial On/Offstage Auto/Biography: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, Hip Hop, and Historiography Nassim Winnie Balestrini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
Emily Dickinson, Intermediality, and Life Writing: An Interview with Susan Snively Ina Bergmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
The Respectful Biographer’s Empathetic Imagination: An Interview about Intermediality and Life Writing with Brenda Wineapple Nassim Winnie Balestrini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
Note on the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255

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September 10, 2018

eBook ISBN:

9783110579253

Hardcover published on:

September 10, 2018

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110576757

Paperback published on:

July 6, 2020

Paperback ISBN:

9783110709629

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Front matter:

7

Main content:

264

Illustrations:

34

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110579253

eBook ISBN: 9783110579253

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110576757

Paperback ISBN: 9783110709629

Keywords for this book

Life writing; intermediality; American studies; interdisciplinarity

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Students, instructors, and scholars in American Studies, in English, in Literary and Cultural Studies; libraries.

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