Part One: Theories of intermediality: form and meaning
1. The history
2. The theory
Part Two: Collage
3. A heterogeneous articulation of meaning: avant-garde visual and verbal collage
4. "The whole shebang!": musical collage and meaning
Part Three: From collage to montage
5. ‘Transparent’ replacements: visual collage and heterogeneous photomontage
6. Intermedial models: film montage and homogeneous photomontage
7. Chasing the ‘greased pig’ of meaning: literary and musical montage
Biography
Magda Dragu is Visiting Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.
"Dragu’s book is ... a valuable addition to the field of modernist studies. The meticulous research conducted is a particular strength of the volume."
--The Modernist Review
"Dragu’s book is a much-needed, meticulously researched and highly original contribution to a field that is undergoing a resurgence of critical interest."
--Polish Journal of English Studies
"Dragu’s book helps one better comprehend the materiality of the literary and artistic works of the early avant-garde employing the techniques of collage and montage, opening new areas of research and inquiry into the international and national historical avant-gardes."
--Mozaicul
