A Semiotics of Multimodality and Signification in the Divine Comedy - Raffaele De Benedictis

A Semiotics of Multimodality and Signification in the Divine Comedy

Buch | Hardcover
252 Seiten
2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-49733-4 (ISBN)
186,95 inkl. MwSt
Semiotics and multimodality combined together create new forms of signification in the Divine Comedy. It contributes to the advancement of Dante Studies, Literary Criticism, Multimedia/Multiliteracy, philosophy of language, communication, and education.
A new critical method for the Divine Comedy which focuses not only on language-as-writing but also and equally on other discursive modes that the Divine Comedy authorizes. Multimodality was already present in Dante’s time, and the reception of the Divine Comedy took place multimodally. Thus, a theoretical study of multimodality carried out under the semiotic lens sheds light on how and why a mode is more effective than another and/or how they may combine in producing signification and new ontologies warranted by Dante’s text. Also, we do not yet have a critical theory that allows us to understand the function of multimodality for the creation of new forms of signification and of clarifying the ontological boundaries set forth by different modalities. It is a new and original study which contributes to the advancement of Dante Studies, Literary Criticism (with a focus on literary semiotics), Multimedia/Multiliteracy, philosophy of language, communication, and education.

Chapters 1, 2, and 5 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. .

Raffaele De Benedictis holds a Ph.D. in Italian from the University of Toronto and is Associate Professor of Italian at Wayne State University. He teaches courses on Dante, Literary Criticism, and Italian Culture. He is the author of two books and several articles on Dante, semiotics, and Italian culture.

List of abbreviations

1. A Semiotic Theory of Multimodality for the Divine Comedy

2. The Semiotics of Multimodality in Discourse

3. Early and Recent Forms of Multimodality in the Inferno

4. Purgatorio’s Signifying Modes

5. Modality of Transcendental Signification in the Paradiso

6. Conclusion

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
Zusatzinfo 10 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white; 19 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 639 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-032-49733-5 / 1032497335
ISBN-13 978-1-032-49733-4 / 9781032497334
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