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The Gesamtkunstwerk as Synergy of the Arts

Edited by Massimo Fusillo and Marina Grishakova

The first CLAM publication on the Gesamtkunstwerk, which comes out of a Workshop held at 2016 Vienna ICLA Congress, just appeared by Peter Lang, edited by Massimo Fusillo and Marina Grishakowa, with a Postface by Matthew Wilson Smith (University of Stanford).

The book reconceives the “total work of art” as a variation of intermediality, a practice that subverts any essentialist vision of artistic languages through complex interplay and blending of perceptions, amplified by new media and the syncretic nature of the cyberspace. It aims at revealing the vitality of modern and contemporary Gesamtkunstwerk by mapping its presence in various arts and media.

https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/66440

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Special Issue of “Between” : Transmediality / Intermediality / Crossmediality: Problems of Definition

Workshop in Macau and publication of the proceedings

The CLAM held its second Workshop at the ICLA Congress in Macau in July 2019, devoted to “Problems of Terminology and Classification” with the participation of Hans-Joachim Backe, Massimo Fusillo, Yorimitsu Hashimoto, Helga Mitterbauer, Mauro Pala, Marcio Seligmann-Silva, Federico Zecca. The papers were submitted to the Journal of the Italian Association of Theory and Comparative History of Literature Between, and have been just published in the current issue: Vol 10 No 20 (2020): Transmediality / Intermediality / Crossmediality: Problems of Definition, Eds. H.-J. Backe, M. Fusillo, M. Lino, with the focus section Intermedial Dante: Reception, Appropriation, Metamorphosis, Eds. C. Fischer and M. Petricola https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between

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Narrative Complexity. Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution

Edited by Marina Grishakova and Maria Poulaki

The variety in contemporary philosophical and aesthetic thinking as well as in scientific and experimental research on complexity has not yet been fully adopted by narratology. By integrating cutting-edge approaches, this volume takes a step toward filling this gap and establishing interdisciplinary narrative research on complexity.

Narrative Complexity provides a framework for a more complex and nuanced study of narrative and explores the experience of narrative complexity in terms of cognitive processing, affect, and mind and body engagement. Bringing together leading international scholars from a range of disciplines, this volume combines analytical effort and conceptual insight in order to relate more effectively our theories of narrative representation and complexities of intelligent behavior. 

This collection engages important questions on how narrative complexity functions as an agent of cultural evolution, how our understanding of narrative complexity can be extended in light of new research in the social sciences and humanities, how interactive media produce new types of narrative complexity, and how the role of embodiment as a factor of narrative complexity acquires prominence in cognitive science and media studies. The contributors explore narrative complexity transmitted through various semiotic channels, embedded in multiple contexts, and experienced across different media, including film, comics, music, interactive apps, audiowalks, and ambient literature.