New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality [Hardcover]

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.

List of Figures and Tables Permissions Acknowledgments 1. Introduction, Ruth Page 2. Multimodal Storytelling: Performance and Inscription in the Narration of Art History, Fiona J. Doloughan 3. A Multimodal Approach to Mind Style: Semiotic Metaphor vs. Multimodal Conceptual Metaphor, Roc?o Montoro 4. The Computer-based Analysis of Narrative and Multimodality, Andrew Salway 5. Opera: Forever and Always Multimodal, Michael Hutcheon and Linda Hutcheon 6. Word-Image/Utterance-Gesture: Case Studies in Multimodal Storytelling, David Herman 7. I contain multitudes : Narrative Multimodality and the Book that Bleeds, Alison Gibbons 8. Multimodality and the Literary Text: Making Sense of Safran Foers Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Nina N?rgaard 9. Electronic Multimodal Narratives and Literary Form, Michael Toolan 10. Gains and Losses? Writing it All Down: Fanfiction and Multimodality, Bronwen Thomas 11. Respiratory Narrative: Multimodality and Cybernetic Corporeality ilc