Visual Devices in Contemporary Prose Fiction

Dr Simon Barton is an Associate Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Salford, UK, where he teaches on Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature modules. He specializes in Modern and Contemporary Literature, with a focus on the experimental and avant-garde.

List of Figures Acknowledgements 1: An Introduction to Visual Devices in Contemporary Prose Fiction 2: Reading Textual Gaps 3: Textual Gestures: Iconic Text and Narrative 4: Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative: Images in Prose Fiction 5: Case Study 1: Raymond Federman's Double or Nothing: A Real Fictitious Discourse (1992) 6: Case Study 2: William H. Gass's Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife (1968) 7: Conclusions Bibliography Index