The increasing transfer of literary texts and of related writing/reading processes from the printed page to analog and digital media (and vice versa) is the phenomenon under investigation in this book, for which the term 'literary intermediality' has been coined. Literature is 'in transit', i.e. travelling incessantly through mass-media, personal-media, and the internet, with crucial effects both on the ways it is perceived by younger generations of users and on the ways it is devised by contemporary authors. The literary text far from being restricted to printed media keeps moving across the whole media circuit, thus acquiring at any stage a new, temporary identity. Based on the seminar 'Intermediality and Literary Practices' at the 7th ESSE Conference in 2004, the essays of this collection by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic focus on the seminar's common topics - cinema, theatre, postmodernism, and new critical issues. The increasing transfer of literary texts and of related writing/reading processes from the printed page to analog and digital media (and vice versa) is the phenomenon under investigation in this book, for which the term 'literary intermediality' has been coined. Literature is 'in transit', i.e. travelling incessantly through mass-media, personal-media, and the internet, with crucial effects both on the ways it is perceived by younger generations of users and on the ways it is devised by contemporary authors. The literary text far from being restricted to printed media keeps moving across the whole media circuit, thus acquiring at any stage a new, temporary identity. Based on the seminar «Intermediality and Literary Practices» at the 7th ESSE Conference in 2004, the essays of this collection by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic focus on the seminar's common topics - cinema, theatre, postmodernism, and new critical issues. Premise 7(9) Literary Intermediality: An Introduction 9(18) Maddalena Pennacchia Punzi Literary Intermediality and Cinema Writing, the Body, and Cinema: Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book 27(16) Joy Sisley From Among the Dead: Identity and Truth in Filmic Letters 43(22) Celestino Deleyto Jane Austen on Screen: Deference and Divergence 65(18) Lydia Martin Literary Intermediality and Theatre Intermediality in David Mamet's The Water Engine 83(16) Johan Callens ``Gonna build a little place for you and me'': Imaginary Spaces in MacIvor's House 99(28) Bruce Barton ``Star-Cross'd Lovers'' in the Age of AIDS: The Intermediality of Rudolf Nureyev's Romeo and Juliet 127(18) Karen Bennett Literary Intermediality and Postmodernism Intermediality in Literature: Bret Easton Ellis and the MTV Novel 145(18) Sonia Baelo Allue Mediatic Metamorphoses and Postmodern Novels by Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ellis and Nick Hornby 163(20) Barbara Antonucci Repurposing Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the Postmodern Age 183(20) Nancy Isenberg Literary Intermediality and New Critical Issues Literary Effects of Author-Stardom 203(16) Ana Vogrincic Internet, E-Learning and Critical Distance 219(22) Giuseppe Martella Shaping G/Local Identities in Intermedial Texts: The Case of Bridget Jones's Diary 241(14) Maddalena Pennacchia Punzi Notes on the Contributors 255