INTERMEDIALITY: DEFINITIONS (Wolf)
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Intermediality, narrow sense:
Def. 1
Intermediality can [...] be defined as a particular relation (a relation that is ,intermedi-al' in the narrow sense) between conventionally distinct media of [...] communication: this relation consists in a verifiable, or at least convincingly ^identifiable, direct or indirect participation of two or mere media in the signification and/or effects of a human artefact, (adapted from Wolf 1999: 37)
Intermediality, wide sense:
Def. 2:
Intermediality [...] applies in its broadest sense to any transgression of boundaries between media and thus is concerned with 'heteromedial' relations between different semiotic complexes or between different parts of a semiotic complex. (Wolf 2005: 252)
Def. 3:
Intermediality: "any transgression of boundaries between what is conventionally perceived as distinct media of communication" (Wolf 2015: 460]
References:
Wolf, Werner (1999). The Musicalization of Fiction: A Study in the Theory and History of Intermediality. IFAVW Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 35. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
— (2005). "Intermediality". David Herman, Manfred Jahn, Marie-Laure Ryan eds. The Rout-
ledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. London: Routledge. 252-256.
— (2015). "Literature and Music: Theory": Gabriele Rippl, ed. Handbook Intermediality:
Literature - Image - Sound- Music. Handbooks of English and American Studies 1. Berlin: de Gruyter. 461-474.