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Author Benthien, Claudia, 1965- author.

Title The literariness of media art / Claudia Benthien, Jordis Lau, and Maraike M. Marxsen
Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2019

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Contents Literariness and media art: theoretical framing -- Voice and script in media art -- Literary genres in media art -- Works of literature in media art
Summary The beginning of the 20th century saw literary scholars from Russia positing a new definition for the nature of literature. Within the framework of Russian formalism, the term "literariness" was coined. The driving force behind this theoretical inquiry was the desire to identify literature--and art in general--as ways of revitalizing human perception, which had been numbed by the automatization of everyday life. The transformative power of "literariness" is made manifest in many media artworks by renowned artists such as Chantal Akerman, Mona Hatoum, Gary Hill, Jenny Holzer, William Kentridge, Nalini Malani, Bruce Nauman, Martha Rosler, and Lawrence Weiner. The authors use literariness as a tool to analyze the aesthetics of spoken or written language within experimental film, video performance, moving image installations and other media-based art forms. This volume uses as its foundation the Russian formalist school of literary theory, with the goal of extending these theories to include contemporary concepts in film and media studies, such as neoformalism, intermediality, remediation, and post-drama
Analysis Media Art
literary approach
language
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Claudia Benthien is Professor for German Literature and Cultural Theory at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Jordis Lau is a PhD candidate at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Maraike M. Marxsen is a PhD candidate at the University of Hamburg, Germany
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Subject Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Formalism (Literary analysis)
Language.
Literature & literary studies.
Media studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
Formalism (Literary analysis)
Russian literature
Russian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Formalism (Literary analysis)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Lau, Jordis, author
Marxsen, Maraike (Maraike M.), author.
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