Text, Medium, Afterlife: Intertextuality and Intermediality in the Works of Yoko Tawada

Author

Suzuko Mousel Knott, Washington University in St. LouisFollow

Abstract

"Text, Medium, Afterlife: Intertextuality and Intermediality in the Works of Yoko Tawada" examines the roles of personal and mass media technologies in the works of contemporary German-language author Yoko Tawada. The study analyses the author's prose fiction, whereinthe possibility of limitless textual permutations - an afterlife of the text - is accessed through a web of intertextual and intermedial associations. The expression of an individual voice against adominant culture's mass media mobilizes a discourse of networks which emerges from the creative gaps and apertures revealed by the author's deconstructive approach to language and literatures.

Committee Chair

Stephanie Kirk

Committee Members

Elzbieta Sklodowska, Claire Solomon

Comments

Permanent URL: https://doi.org/10.7936/K7BG2M5M

Degree

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Author's Department

Germanic Languages and Literatures

Author's School

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Document Type

Dissertation

Date of Award

Spring 5-15-2011

Language

English (en)

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7936/K7BG2M5M

Recommended Citation

Knott, Suzuko Mousel, "Text, Medium, Afterlife: Intertextuality and Intermediality in the Works of Yoko Tawada" (2011). Arts & Sciences Theses and Dissertations. 508.

The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.7936/K7BG2M5M