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Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chosen Case Studies -- References -- Chapter 2: What is Mediality, and (How) does it Matter? Theoretical Terms and Methodology -- The Field of Intermediality -- From Medium to Mediation and Mediality -- Aspects of External Medialities -- Historicity of Medial Relations -- Combination and Transformation as the Two Major Intermedial Relations -- Reference, Formal Imitation, and Medial Projection -- Mediality Analysis of Literary Texts: A Methodology -- Basic Analytical Foundation -- The Case Study -- Mediality as Motif Beyond Comparison -- The Meta-Aspects of Combined and Transformed Medialities -- The Multiplicity of Possible Readings -- The Mediality Analysis of Narrative Literary Texts: A Three-Step Model -- Presentation of the Analytical Results -- References -- Chapter 3: Speak, Memory? Vladimir Nabokov, "Spring in Fialta"1 -- "Tightly Woven, Beautifully Composed, Elaborately Intricate": Presentation of "Spring in Fialta" -- Critical Reception -- Step 1: Registering Medialities in "Spring in Fialta" -- Step 2: Structuring Medialities in "Spring in Fialta" -- Word and Image as Structuring Principle? "What Was the Good of Thinking Up Books": The Function of Literature in "Spring in Fialta" -- "All Dissolved": Cinematic Aspects -- Step 3: Contextualizing the Mediality Structure in "Spring in Fialta" -- "Audible and Real": Music as the Comprehensive Metaphor for the Interpretation -- Speak, Memory: Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 4: "This Beats Tapes, Doesn't It?": Women, Cathedrals, and Other Medialities in Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" -- Synopsis and Stylistic Characterization -- Step 1: Registering Medialities in "Cathedral" -- Step 2: Structuring Medialities in "Cathedral The ` and Function of the Cathedral -- "This Beats Tapes, Doesn't It?" -- Step 3: Contextualizing the Structured Medialities in "Cathedral" -- Technology, Christianity, Epiphany -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 5: "Great script, eh?": Medialities, Metafiction, and Non-meaning in Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain" -- The "Quintessential Wolff Story": Presentation -- Step 1: Registering Medialities in "Bullet in the Brain" -- Step 2: Structuring Medialities in "Bullet in the Brain" -- Step 3: Contextualizing the Mediality Structure in "Bullet in the Brain Concluding Remarks: Artist, Critic, or Little Boy? -- References -- Chapter 6: Between Punk and PowerPoint: Authenticity Versus Medialities in Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad -- Part One -- Step 1: Registering Medialities in A Visit from the Goon Squad -- Step 2: Structuring Medialities in Goon Squad -- Step 3: Contextualizing the Mediality Structure in Goon Squad -- Part Two -- Beyond Represented Medialities in A Visit from the Goon Squad -- Formal Imitation -- External Medialities Aspects: Pre-texts and Post-texts -- References -- Chapter 7: Afterthoughts -- Reference -- References Index
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