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- Title: An Intermedial Reading of Paley's Sita Sings the Blues (Company Overview)
- Author : CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
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Chiel Kattenblatt defines intermediality as "those co-relations between different media that result into a redefinition of the media that are influencing each other and a resensibilization of perception. Intermediality, unlike transmediality, assumes not so much a change from one medium to another medium but rather a co-relation in the actual sense of the word, that is to say a mutual affect ... Time and space are still the two main dimensions by which we distinguish media from each other and determine their specificity. Such a determination of the specificity of media is usually related to their materiality, although we may notice in the media comparative discourse there is apprehensiveness about ascribing the specific features of a medium to its materiality" (6-7). Dick Higgins distinguishes between a number of different uses of the concept of intermediality: "intermediality may refer to the transposition from one media to another or the combination of two or more media" (51-52). References to one media in another may also be called intermediality. Thus, contact between different media and the reception of one by the other is the basic operation that makes the condition of intermediality possible. This contact may result in the formation of a text combining the semiotic structures of two media or changing the configuration of elements of one particular medium through the contact with another. In each case, Higgins points out, "one medium is present in it's own materiality and mediality in the other" (52). This implies that the operations of contact between media and their mutual interaction or reception of one by the other regulates the production of a text resulting in intermediality. Niklas Luhmann argues that the medium provides the conditions of possibility for creating form (105). Therefore, the condition of intermediality--since it is produced from a conceptual fusion of several types of media--results in a specific genre. Thus, I postulate that the intermedial "text" can be best studied using the framework of comparative literature (but without the discipline's traditional paradigms such as the nation approach, Eurocentrism, etc.). The approach I suggest is similar to what has been termed the "new" comparative literature (see Totosy de Zepetnek, Comparative Literature). However, I would submit that the "new" is not in the method, but, rather, in bringing the multi- and interdisciplinary underpinnings of the discipline to the fore. I argue that comparative literature can and has provided a method for doing cultural studies and that this has gone largely unacknowledged. The critical and analytical emphasis in "new" comparative literature and in "comparative cultural studies" should alert us to the possibilities these approaches can offer (see Totosy de Zepetnek, "The New Humanities").