Review of Epigraphy in an Intermedial Context (original) (raw)

Ph.D. Thesis - Multimodal Analysis of Middle English Manuscripts: Examples of Compared Textual and Iconographical Narrations

With this study I intend to develop the application of modern theories of multimodal communication to a corpus of medieval manuscripts written in Middle English. Multimodal analysis can be effectively applied especially to narrative texts featuring a pictorial cycle illuminating the related events, but it is applicable to others genres as well. This work will illustrate the peculiar communicative dynamics existing between two communicative modes (image and word) and their structural visual arrangements. Through the application of this kind of analysis, the manuscript medium appears again as a whole, a system of semiotic resources linked by multiple relations, showing modern communicative dynamics.

Media An-archē-ology - La Deleuziana, PDF

In this article, I explore critical points of mutual concern and potential cooperation for the field of media archaeology and the deconstruction of metaphysics, as articulated in the work of Reiner Schürmann. Each of these critical modes of thought, I argue, has emerged out of a shared impulse to deconstruct our " archaeo-teleological desire " for " archaeo-teleocratic origins, " yet the productive capacity of their overlapping, interpenetrating concerns has yet to be posited, much less explored. I therefore trace the contours of two significant points at which each of these seemingly disparate critical traditions reveals itself to be already in the service of the other.

Antonella Brita and Janina Karolewski (2021): ‘Unravelling Multiple-Text Manuscripts: Introducing Categories Based on Content, Use, and Production’, in Jörg B. Quenzer (ed.), Exploring Written Artefacts: Objects, Methods, and Concepts (SMC, 25.1), Berlin: De Gruyter, 459–490.

2021

In recent years, multiple-text manuscripts (MTMs) have attracted growing academic interest. MTMs deserve ample attention, since they constitute the majority of manuscripts in many cultures. The aim of this article is to categorize MTMs in a way that goes beyond textual content or mere codicological features. Focusing on and combining three aspects (content, use, and production), we propose the following categories: Petrified MTMs, Intertwined MTMs, Open MTMs, Repurposed MTMs, and Recycled MTMs. These MTM categories reflect commonly shared phenomena and can be applied to MTMs from various manuscript cultures. At the centre of our approach is an attempt to better understand the projects behind MTMs. In this way, we seek to analyse and categorize MTMs with regard to their emergence, transmission, use, reception, and perception.