Planned topics

The subject of the upcoming issue will be transmedial geneaology understood as a contemporary branch of comparative studies dedicated to comparative analysis of literary, journalistic, cinematic, multi- intermedial and interdiscursive genres. Reflection will be centred around borderline genres operating on the cusp of literature and journalism (report, essay, op-ed piece), syncretic, combining various literary modes (poem, modern silva rerum), with an additional inquiry into hybridic cinematic genres (horror comedy or mockumentary). The authors will attempt not only to define chosen genre variations but also to reconstruct a constellation of related sub-genres, which may be useful for depicting and uncovering mutual inter-medial interactions and mechanisms of parallel convergence of multiple thematic templates. Another vital element of this volume will be a deliberation regarding multi- and intermedial genres or such works which function simultaneously in different media (an example of which could be a hypertex fiction or autobiographical forms, like blogs, selfies, social media profiles, appearing in literature, visual arts, cinema and new media) or owing their “heterogeneous identity” to the coexistence of aesthetics stemming from varied media forms – performance or advertisement readily considered instances of the latter. What is more, we shall be interested in those genres which appear on the intersection of different discourses.