New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality (Routledge Studies in Multimodality) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415995175 ISBN 13: 9780415995177

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not consist of words alone, and demonstrate the ways in which multimodality brings into fresh focus the embodied nature of narrative production and processing. Engaging with a spectrum of multimodal storytelling, from ‘low tech’ examples encompassing face-to-face stories, comic books, printed literature, through to opera, film adaptation and television documentary, stretching beyond to narratives that employ new media such as hypertext, performance art, and interactive museum guides, this volume examines the interplay of semiotic codes (visual, oral, aural, haptic, physiological) within each case under scrutiny, thereby exposing both points of commonality and difference in the range of multimodal narrative experiences.

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About the Author

Ruth Page is a Reader in the School of English at Birmingham City University. She is the author of Literary and Linguistic Approaches to Feminist Narratology (Palgrave, 2006), and co-editor of New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age (UNP, forthcoming).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415995175
• ISBN 13: 9780415995177
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 14
• Editor: Page Ruth