We are delighted to announce that the latest issue of the Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings, entitled ‘Crossings – Concept, Discourse, Practice’, has been published. This special issue is occasioned by the eponymous 12th annual CLIC day in November 2022 and was edited by guest editors Janine Hauthal and Arvi Sepp (Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
As the guest editors remark in the introduction, this issue takes in an interest in the conceptual transversality of intermedially and transculturally oriented studies of crossings across medial, spatial, and historical axes. Crossings, they argue, denote transits or transitions between genres, disciplines, geocultural and linguistic realms, or periods, and foreground the interconnectedness and entanglement of cultural and medial phenomena.
Approaching the topic from methodological perspectives that span the disciplines of translation studies, literary studies, and digital media studies, the articles demonstrate how a focus on ‘crossings’ can yield new scientific insights into the ways we (used to) study culturally or medially bounded products, practices, and discourses.
This issue includes:
"Introduction: Crossings – Concept, Discourse, Practice", Janine Hauthal, Arvi Sepp, pp. 1-13.
"Profile-Based Works on Social Media", Alexandra Saemmer, pp. 14-29.
"Redefining the Paratext 2.0: Social Media and Amanda Gorman's Translator Debate", Guillerma Sanz Gallego, pp. 30-44.
"L’exil comme fil conducteur: dynamiques mémorielles transnationales dans l’adaptation de Gott ist nicht schüchtern au Berliner Ensemble", Alice Lacoue-Labarthe, pp. 45-62.
"Tableaux Vivants and Incarnated Portraits: Constructing Literary Territories", Atinati Mamatsashvili, pp. 63-78.
"Whimsical Satire and the Crossing of Humorous and Ironic Targeting: An Analysis of May Kendall’s 'The Philanthropist and the Jelly-Fish' (1887)", Anthony Manu, pp. 79-103.
"D’après Google, vous êtes poètes: Street Poetry and Publishing in Brussels", Timotéo Sergoï, David Giannoni, Rachele Gusella, pp. 104-114.
"Interview with Patrick McGuinness: Writer of Crossings", Patrick McGuinness, Michael David Rosenfeld, pp. 115-127.
