Studia LitterariaziPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4467/20843933st.20.016.12178
Magdalena Wasilewska-Chmura
{"title":"Słowo, obraz i muzyka w intermedialnym laboratorium Ingmara Bergmana","authors":"Magdalena Wasilewska-Chmura","doi":"10.4467/20843933st.20.016.12178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933st.20.016.12178","url":null,"abstract":"The article addresses the problem of relationships between a word, an image, and music in Ingmar Bergman’s films as approached from a new perspective of multimodality theories within a wider context of intermedia studies. The proposed framework for analyses is Lars Elleström’s concept of modalities of media, which are basic categories of their possible features: material modality (the way of mediating signs), sensorial modality (the way of perception and involvement of the senses), spatiotemporal modality (concerning the cognitive conditions for fixing perception data in space and time), and semiotic modality, which is connected to meaning. As her point of departure the article’s author takes Bergman’s words about film being parallel to music, which speak for film’s formal complexity as well as intensified connotative values. Further into the article, the analyses of selected musical scenes from Autumn Sonata and Cries and Whispers are carried out to illustrate the emergence of meaning through the combination of text, image and music or image and music. The article argues that music serves as a narrative means connecting different narrative levels and/or expressing emotional complexity beyond the limits of language. Thanks to different modalities of the media involved the semiotic impact of musical scenes is more elaborate than that of the verbal text itself, and the symbolic meaning of universal relevance is achieved.","PeriodicalId":207274,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterariazi","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134490809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Studia LitterariaziPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.4467/20843933st.20.013.12175
Roswitha Badry
{"title":"Among the Pilgrims, but Not of Them – Individualist Intellectuals on Their Pilgrimage to Mecca","authors":"Roswitha Badry","doi":"10.4467/20843933st.20.013.12175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933st.20.013.12175","url":null,"abstract":"How does an individualist and skeptical intellectual who is not religious in the usual sense experience the pilgrimage to Mecca in modern times, when he or she is only one among a huge mass of pilgrims? In order to offer an answer to this question, this contribution will look at two literary texts which are quite different in terms of author, time, and genre, but show a number of similarities in terms of observations, impressions, reflections, and feelings. The first is Lost in the Crowd , the travel diary published by the Iranian thinker Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923– 1969) in 1966 on his Hajj experiences in 1964; the second is the novel Fitna by the Emirati author Amira al-Qahtani, which appeared in 2007 and takes the pilgrimage as a frame-story. It will be argued that Al-e Ahmad established a discursive tradition that had an impact on religious doubters in Iran and beyond.","PeriodicalId":207274,"journal":{"name":"Studia Litterariazi","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132198043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}