GRISHAKOVA, Marina et Marie-Laure RYAN [dir.], Intermediality and storytelling, New York, De Gruyter, 2010, 353 p.
Cet ouvrage n'apporte pas vraiment d'élément nouveau à la théorie du récit en littérature. Toutefois, le large spectre des médiums qu'il traite le rend potentiellement intéressant dans le cadre d'une analyse “intermédiale” sur le récit ou pour examiner la narrativité à l'oeuvre dans des domaines aussi divers que la musique, le cinéma, la photographie, la publicité…
Présentation de l'éditeur
The “narrative turn” in the humanities, which expanded the study of narrative to various disciplines, has found a correlate in the “medial turn” in narratology. Long restricted to language-based literary fiction, narratology has found new life in the recognition that storytelling can take place in a variety of media, and often combines signs belonging to different semiotic categories: visual, auditory, linguistic and perhaps even tactile. The essays gathered in this volume apply the newly gained awareness of the expressive power of media to particular texts, demonstrating the productivity of a medium-aware analysis. Through the examination of a wide variety of different media, ranging from widely studied, such as literature and film, to new, neglected, or non-standard ones, such as graphic novels, photography, television, musicals, computer games and advertising, they address some of the most fundamental questions raised by the medial turn in narratology: how can narrative meaning be created in media other than language; how do different types of signs collaborate with each other in so-called “multi-modal works”; and what new forms of narrativity are made possible by the emergence of digital media.