New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality

by Page; Ruth E.

• ISBN13: 9780415995177
• ISBN10: 0415995175
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 '¬Ülow 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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
Permissions	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Multimodal Storytelling: Performance and Inscription in the Narration of Art History	p. 14
A Multimodal Approach to Mind Style: Semiotic Metaphor vs. Multimodal Conceptual Metaphor	p. 31
The Computer-Based Analysis of Narrative and Multimodality	p. 50
Opera: Forever and Always Multimodal	p. 65
Word-Image/Utterance-Gesture: Case Studies in Multimodal Storytelling	p. 78
"I Contain Multitudes": Narrative Multimodality and the Book that Bleeds	p. 99
Multimodality and the Literary Text: Making Sense of Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close	p. 115
Electronic Multimodal Narratives and Literary Form	p. 127
Gains and Losses? Writing it All Down: Fanfiction and Multimodality	p. 142
Respiratory Narrative: Multimodality and Cybernetic Corporeality in "Physio-Cybertext"	p. 155
Cruising Along: Time in Ankerson and Sapnar	p. 166
Beyond Multimedia, Narrative, and Game: The Contributions of Multimodality and Polymorphic Fictions	p. 183
Keg Party Extreme and Conversation Party: Two Multimodal Interactive Narratives Developed for the SMALLab	p. 202
Coda/Prelude: Eighteen Questions for the Study of Narrative and Multimodality	p. 217
Contributors	p. 221
Index	p. 225
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