New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality

by Ruth E. Page (Editor)

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.

Genres: Research

243 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 19, 2009

About the author

Ruth Page is a Reader in the School of English at the University of Leicester. Her research interests include storytelling, sociolinguistics and social media. Her publications draw on literary-critical and discourse-analytic approaches to narratives in conversational, fictional and online contexts. She is author of Stories and Social Media (2012) and Literary and Linguistic Approaches to Feminist Narratology (2006).