List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
A Literary Approach to Media Art | Russian Formalism and Neoformalism | Reflecting Terminology: Media Art and Its Categories | Four Artistic Approaches: About the Structure of This Book
2 Literariness and Media Art: Theoretical Framing
2.1 The Aesthetics of Language: Literary Theory
The Obstreperousness of Poetic Language | Art as Device: Estrangement and Complicating Form | Poetics of Deviation | The Palpability and Performativity of Poetic Language | Ambiguity and the Split Sign
2.2 Literariness Beyond Literature: Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Literariness and Ostranenie in Audiovisual Arts | Russian Formalism and Film | Technology as Device | The Poetics of Neoformalism | Literariness Between Media | Overabundance, Excess Emptiness, and Retreat of Synthesis | Medial Opacity and Perception
3 Voice and Script in Media Art
3.1 Voice and the Materiality of Sound
THEORY: The Voice as Medium and the Mediatized Voice | Sound Poetry and Transrational Language
ANALYSES: Iteration and the Alphabet as Aesthetic Devices | The Performative Power of the Acousmatic Voice | Technical Alienation of the Voice | Voice and Image, Voice and Script
3.2 Script -- Between Visuality and Legibility
THEORY: Russian Formalism and the Written Word | Script between Transparent Representation and Palpable Body | Script as Image / Script in Images | Written Words in Film
ANALYSES: Recognition versus Seeing | Framing as Aesthetic Device | Playing With Words | Writing On and With Bodies
4 Literary Genres in Media Art
4.1 Elements of Poetry
THEORY: Poetry as a Literary Genre | Excess Structuring: Language Use in Poetry | Vertical Compositions: Poetic Structures in the Audiovisual Arts | Lyric Subjectivity
ANALYSES: Visual Poetry and Media Art | Poetical Practices and Lyrical Speech in Media Art | Poetic Images: Experimental Video Poems
4.2 Elements of Drama
THEORY: Drama Theory and Media Art | Core Elements of Drama | Ostranenie and the Alienation Effect | Features of Postdramatic Theater
ANALYSES: Dialogic and Performative Installations | Theatrical Overabundance: Playing with the Theatrical Frame | Citing Elements of Classical Tragedy
4.3 Elements of Prose
THEORY: Narrative Prose and Time-Based Media | Narrative Order, Narrative Integration: fabula and sužet | Narrative Voice -- the Mediating Instance | Narrative Mode: Perception and Perspective
ANALYSES: Variations on First Person Narration in Media Art | Autobiography as Act and Device | Audiovisual Explorations of Epistolary Fiction
5 Works of Literature in Media Art
THEORY: Adaptation as Appropriation | Intertextual Dialogism | Adaptation, Translation, Transcription | Adaptations as Deviant Derivatives
ANALYSES: Voice and Sound: Acousmatic Adaptations | Baring the Signifier: Written Allusions | Aesthetics of Superimposition I: Reflecting Memory | Aesthetics of Superimposition II: Queer Defamiliarizations | Theatrical Appropriation: Personifying Literary Figures | Poetics of Quotations: The Literary in Performative Installations
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Featured Works
Formal Remarks
