Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-2287-9 (ISBN)
Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives interrogates the multimodal relationship between fictionality and factuality. The contemporary discussion about fictionality coincides with an increase in anxiety regarding the categories of fact and fiction in popular culture and global media. Today’s media-saturated historical moment and political climate give a sense of urgency to the concept of fictionality, distinct from fiction, specifically in relation to modes and media of discourse.
Torsa Ghosal and Alison Gibbons explicitly interrogate the relationship of fictionality with multimodal strategies of narrative construction in the present media ecology. Contributors consider the ways narrative structures, their reception, and their theoretical frameworks in narratology are influenced and changed by media composition—particularly new media. By accounting for the relationship of multimodal composition with the ontological complexity of narrative worlds, Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives fills a critical gap in contemporary narratology—the discipline that has, to date, contributed most to the conceptualization of fictionality.
Torsa Ghosal is an assistant professor of English at California State University, Sacramento. She is the author of Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative. Alison Gibbons is a reader in contemporary stylistics at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. She is the author of Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature and the coeditor of several books, including Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism.
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Intersections of Fictionality and Multimodality in Narratives
Torsa Ghosal and Alison Gibbons
Part 1. Constructing Places and Worlds
1. There’s No Place Like Time and Maze Reading
Lance Olsen
2. Multimodal Fantasies of Getting Lost: Reading Contemporary Literary Maps
Alexander Starre
3. Possible Worlds Theory and the Fictionality of Images in Counterfactual Narratives
Riyukta Raghunath
4. Fictionality and Multimodal Anthropocene Fiction
Alison Gibbons
Part 2. Crossing Borders and Creative Boundaries
5. The New-Materialism Novel: Twenty-Two Bricks in Its Theory and Construction
Steve Tomasula
6. Multimodality and Meaning-Making across Lines, Columns, and Genres in Brigid Brophy’s In Transit
Andrea Macrae
7. Fictionality and the Multimodal Positioning of the Reader in Christian Jungersen’s You Disappear
Nina Nørgaard
8. Do-It-Yourself Multimodality: Fictionality and the (Ab)Uses of the Book Medium in Keri Smith’s Wreck This Journal
Mikko Keskinen
Part 3. Writing, Showing, and Reading from Life
9. The Line and I: Breaks and Genres
Sumana Roy
10. Building Familiarity in Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Familiar: Multimodal Storytelling, Seriality, and Social Reading
Sara Tanderup Linkis
11. Fictionality in Theory Fiction and Autotheory
Torsa Ghosal
12. Multimodal Autobiographies
Wolfgang Hallet
13. Postscript
Marie-Laure Ryan
Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.06.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Frontiers of Narrative |
| Zusatzinfo | 12 photographs, 32 illustrations, index |
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4962-2287-3 / 1496222873 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4962-2287-9 / 9781496222879 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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