The Gesamtkunstwerk as a Synergy of the Arts

Conceived by Wagner as a way to recover the synthesis of arts at the core of the Greek tragedy, the Gesamtkunstwerk played a big role in post-Romantic aesthetics. This book revisits the "total work of art" as a variation of intermediality that captures the digital age's principle of open textuality through complex interplay and synergy of media.

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Massimo Fusillo is Professor of Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature at the University of L Aquila; he is also a member of the Academia Europaea. He is the author of The Fetish: Literature, Cinema, Visual Art and the coeditor of Imaginary Films in Literature. Marina Grishakova is Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and a member of the Academia Europaea. She is the author of The Models of Space, Time and Vision in V. Nabokov s Fiction and the coeditor of Intermediality and Storytelling and Narrative Complexity: Cognition, Embodiment, Evolution.