This is a methodical study of the material and mental limits and possibilities of transferring information and media traits among dissimilar media. Elleström proposes a model for pinpointing the most vital conceptual entities and stages in intermedial transfers involving different media types such as speech, writing, music, films, and websites.

Lars Elleström is Professor of Comparative Literature at Linnæus University, Sweden. He chairs the board of the International Society for Intermedial Studies and has written and edited several books, including Divine Madness: On Interpreting Literature, Music, and the Visual Arts Ironically (2002) and Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality (2010). He has also published numerous articles on intermediality, semiotics, poetry, gender and irony.