Elleström’s media modalities in intermedial analysis

Welcome to next week’s IMS seminar, “Elleström’s media modalities in intermedial analysis” with Beate Schirrmacher and Anne Holm:

About the seminar

“Elleström’s framework of media types and media modalities (2010, 2021) provides a flexible framework that mediation always takes place on different levels in what Elleström calls the material, spatiotemporal, sensorial and semiotic media modalities and describes them as “necessary categories of media traits” (2021: 47). In this workshop, we present different ways how the media modalities can be applied in different forms of intermedial analysis and invite for further discussion.

In Beate Schirrmacher’s analysis of Evolution by the Swedish poet Johannes Heldén, the media modalities provide a stable frame for comparisons across media borders. Anne Holm’s exploration of Australian-born songwriter Nick Cave’s lyrics brings together the notion of cross-modal iconicity (Elleström, 2017) and modal theories of meaning, arguing that a cognitive linguistic approach facilitates a nuanced understanding of the material and the sensorial modalities in particular: http://www.textevolution.net/

Suggested reading:

Elleström L (2017). "Bridging the Gap Between Image and Metaphor Through Cross-Modal Iconicity: An Interdisciplinary Model." In: Zirker A, Bauer M, Fischer O & Ljungberg C (eds): Dimensions of Iconicity. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp 167–190.

Elleström L (2021). "The Modalities of Media II. An Expanded Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations." In: Elleström L (ed): Beyond Media Borders. Intermedial Relations among Multimodal Media. Vol. 1. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 41-54.

How to attend the seminar

It is possible to attend the seminar from Dacke in Växjö and via Zoom. Contact us at ims@lnu.se if you want to participate via Zoom, or sign up for our external email list to receive automatic updates on our events (zoom link and additional information are sent out one week in advance).

Photo: 'Aurora - Connecting Senses’, Cristina Pop-Tiron & Signe Kjær Jensen