...Anne Ulrich This article aims to shed light on the relation between multimodality and mediality in television. Taking the US TV comedy show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO, 2014–) as an example, it argues that, by mixing a variety of “modal ensembles” (Gunther Kress), the show succeeds...

... corpus of novels in which various design features (such as layout) and semiotic systems (such as pictures or maps) offer experiences that are not linguistically shaped. They observe that these additional modal and material resources can strengthen or weaken what readers infer from the written words...

... semantic modalities of PWT and reflecting on the use of the tool (“metacognition”); and (3) systematizing reader expectations, as the tool’s orientation toward value makes it cognitive. To show how the tool fares under such conditions and how it could play a role in education, it is then applied...

... argues that Dr. Death is a variant of the fascist New Man, a new modality of corporeal subjectivity, produced through the utilization of the sublime experience of violence for ideological ends. Rooted in the aftershocks of the Darwinian revolution, the new perception of nature as cruel and rapacious...

...—spontaneous wandering and controlled return—that can be created in several sensory modalities. Complex enough to characterize Herbert’s poetry as meditative, the pattern of wandering from and returning to a focal image potentially defines a meditative literary mode with a distinctive relationship...

... an engagement with literary forms and a search for truth, knowledge of the former advances a grasp of the latter. © 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2016 fictional worlds modality literary history history of the novel References Candel Bormann Daniel 2013a...

..., directionality, embodied cognition, grounded cognition Synesthesia and metaphors are ostensibly different phenomena, involving dissimilar processes. Synesthesia is essentially a perceptual experience in which a particular stimulation in one sensory modality (e.g., vision) triggers additional experiences...

..., the application of fictional worlds theory as the essential tool for the investigation of fiction and fictionality can be viewed as yet another leitmotif of Dolezˇel’s theoretical approach — allowing the author an innovative grasp of the issues in question in terms of such notions as narrative modalities...

... 1963 “Semantical Considerations on Modal Logic,” Acta Philosophica Fennica 16 : 83 -94. Le Guin, Ursula K. 1971 The Lathe of Heaven (New York: EOS/Harper Collins). Lewis, David 1973 Counterfactuals (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 1978 “Truth in Fiction,” American...

... . Margolin Uri 1999 “Of What Is Past, Is Passing, or to Come: Temporality, Aspectuality, Modality, and the Nature of Narrative.” In Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis , edited by Herman David , 142 – 66 ( Columbus : Ohio State University Press ). Patron Sylvie...

... “Narrative Modalities,” Journal of Literary Semantics 5 : 5 -14. 1979 “Extensional and Intensional Narrative Worlds,” Poetics 8 : 193 -211. 1983 “Intensional Function, Invisible Worlds, and Franz Kafka,” Style 17 : 120 -41. 1998 Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds...

... of images and language, with an emphasis on stylistic traits. The article closes by discussing the significance of covert progression for 300 and of extending covert progression to the reading of comics. Keywords covert progression, modality, stylistics, comics, 300, Frank Miller 1. Theoretical...

...–6). Additional assumptions range over features (iixii) below. The con- straints of agency, humanity, specificity, modality, for example, typically recur among the one-event approaches just cited, usually in silence. The definer’s overmeasure, however, may run to the event number itself...

...). In the last ten to twenty years, a significant shift has occurred to models that draw upon the body, what is called embodied cognition (e.g., Varela et al. 1991). This, in contrast, emphasizes modal forms of representation, that is, think- ing with and through the senses and the body and—although...

... in visual metaphors can be tested more straightfor- wardly (Kosslyn 2003). We would like to point out that the difference between the verbal and visual metaphors with respect to asymmetry stems from the difference in their modalities and structures. Verbal and visual metaphors use different rep...

... resonances that can be put to various ends. In this context Richter discusses three main issues: the transformations of Gothic modalities in nineteenth century prose fiction genres, the ‘‘neo-Gothic’’ wave of the late s and s (exemplified by such works as Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...

... the connection between the experience of the catastrophe, and the various modalities of experience, and the act of writing, especially since it seems that connection is made tacitly throughout the book. Does it matter, in Santianez's wonderful analysis of Life and Fate , that Vassily Grossman was a firsthand...

... of the world directly mediated and structured by the human body. They are pre-con- ceptual in origin (43) and relate to different sensory modalities (46). Import- ant in the framework of conceptual metaphor theory, image schemas serve to structure more complex concepts and ideas (46). Consequently, image...

... that is actualized at the end, as they do in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale, for example.10 Rather, they are often also left modal- ized. The virtual here often takes the form of the counterfactual, which involves forking paths that branch out of the trajectory of the actual and miss their chance of actualization (Ryan...

... Lars , 2010 , “ The Modalities of Media: A Model for Understanding Intermedial Relations .” In Media Borders, Multimodality, and Intermediality , edited by Elleström Lars , 11 – 48 ( Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan ). Engberg Maria , 2007 Digital: Writing Poetry in the Age...