...John A. Bateman The study of multimodality is concerned with how multiple expressive resources may be effectively combined in communication. In recent years the potential domains of applications of multimodality studies have expanded considerably. Ever more diverse combinations of expressive...

... and the Coup (2011) through the lens of post/documentary , thus emphasizing not just their semiotic multimodality but also their occasionally rather complex referential multimodality . References Aarseth Espen . 1997 . Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins...

... in digital life stories and suggests further research into multimodality’s and interactivity’s possibilities in creating compelling life story experiences. References Aarseth Espen J. 1997 . Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press...

...Klaus Sachs-Hombach; Jan-Noël Thon Introduced here by its guest editors, this special issue of Poetics Today focuses on multimodal media. Its purpose is twofold. On the one hand, it aims to explore the multimodal combination of semiotic resources in a range of primarily aesthetic media forms...

... is metaphorical bidirectionality possible, it explains how the arts enable us to iconically connect with the world through our embodied cognition, not as objective observers in the Western classical sense but as participatory sharers of that world. Multimodalities of Metaphor: A Perspective from the Poetic Arts...

...Janina Wildfeuer As a multimodally complex medium, graphic narratives have long been approached from a semiotic perspective, though the latter’s focus on general decoding mechanisms for reading meaning out of signs has increasingly come under criticism. Only recently has the applicability...

...Torsa Ghosal Multimodality studies consider the ways semiotic resources besides language can facilitate “meaning making” in communicative situations. Alison Gibbons and Wolfgang Hallet, among others, adopt multimodality studies as a framework for literary analysis, calling attention to a growing...

...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...

... ). Fjellestad Danuta , 2015 , “ Nesting—Braiding—Weaving: Photographic Interventions in Three Contemporary American Novels .” In Handbook of Intermediality: Literature—Image—Sound—Music , edited by Rippl Gabriele , 193 – 218 ( Berlin : De Gruyter ). Gibbons Alison , 2012 Multimodality...

... , “ The Multimodal Novel: The Integration of Modes and Media in Novelistic Narration .” In Narratology in the Age of Interdisciplinary Narrative Research , edited by Heinen Sandra Sommer Roy , 129 – 53 ( Berlin : De Gruyter ). Hallet Wolfgang , 2014 , “ The Rise of the Multimodal Novel...

... condition digital audiobooks digital literary app literary materiality How we meet literature is rapidly changing in contemporary media culture, due in large part to digitization. As literary texts are published using the multimodal affordances and network capacities offered by digital media...

... immersive environments that more readily activate a holistically embodied and dialogical experience for the reader in represencing images, but digital ekphrastic praxis also exploits its multimodal, polysemiotic possibilities to critically reflect on the nature of the digital image and its relations...

... publications include, among others, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Gravity’s Rainbow: A Study in Duplex Fiction (1986) and Eros, Logos, and (Fictional) Masculinity (1998), articles on autobiography, intermediality, and multimodal novels, as well as several collections of essays that she has edited...

... 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...

... arrange the violations of narrative conventions and mimetic principles that result in various types of impossibilities along a continuum, with mimesis at one end and conventionality at the other. These are discussed with respect to four multimodal and interactive digital narratives drawn from the realm...

...Álvaro Seiça This article analyzes Ian Hatcher’s online and kinetic poem “⌰ (Total Runout)” (2015) from a point of view of a critique of corporate and governmental black boxing, at the level of its code, text, visual output, sound, and live performance. The multimodal poem is part of the Drone...

... Involved ( New York : Ecco ). Gattis Ryan 2015b Ryan Gattis , www.ryangattis.com . Genette Gérard 1997 Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation . Translated by Lewin Jane E. ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press ). Gibbons Alison 2012 Multimodality...

... translation. Cultural Studies, Multimodality, and Social Connection Comparatist work, writes Ursula K. Heise (2017: 7) in her introduction to the report Futures of Comparative Literature, has been interdisciplinary all along: it has interfaced with art history, film studies, gender studies, history, musi...

... literature (or linguistic contexts in general); however, “its adaptation to disciplines dealing with visual, multimodal, and audiovisual artifacts is still rare” (1 – 2), notes the editor Kathrin Fahlenbrach in the introduction to this volume. The volume aims to remedy this situation by adapting...

... literature (or linguistic contexts in general); however, “its adaptation to disciplines dealing with visual, multimodal, and audiovisual artifacts is still rare” (1 – 2), notes the editor Kathrin Fahlenbrach in the introduction to this volume. The volume aims to remedy this situation by adapting...