Fictionality and multimodal narratives / edited by Torsa Ghosal and Alison Gibbons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ghosal, Torsa, editor.

Gibbons, Alison, editor.

Series:

Frontiers of narrative

Frontiers of Narrative Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Fiction.

Experimental fiction--History and criticism.

Experimental fiction.

Literature, Experimental--History and criticism.

Literature, Experimental.

Reality in literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Modality (Linguistics).

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

"Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives interrogates the relationship of fictionality and the multimodal use of fact in modern narrative construction"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations

1. Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives / Torsa Ghosal and Alison Gibbons

PART I: CONSTRUCTING PLACES AND WORLDS

2. There's No Place Like Time & Maze Reading / Lance Olsen

3. Multimodal Fantasies of Getting Lost: Reading Contemporary Literary Maps in Print and on Screens / Alexander Starre

4. Possible Worlds Theory and the Fictionality of Images in Counterfactual Narratives / Riyukta Raghunath

5. Fictionality and Multimodal Anthropocene Fiction / Alison Gibbons

PART II: CROSSING BORDERS AND CREATIVE BOUNDARIES

6. The New-Materialism Novel: 22 Bricks in Its Theory & Construction / Steve Tomasula

7. Multimodality and meaning-making across lines, columns and genres in Brigid Brophy's In Transit: An Heroi-Cyclic Novel / Andrea Macrae

8. Fictionality and the multimodal positioning of the reader in Christian Jungersen's You Disappear / Nina Norgaard

9. Do-It-Yourself Multimodality: Fictionality and the (Ab)uses of the Book Medium in Keri Smith's Wreck This Journal / Mikko Keskinen

PART III: WRITING, SHOWING, AND READING FROM LIFE

10. The Line and I: Breaks and Genres / Sumana Roy

11. Building Familiarity in Mark Z. Danielewski's The Familiar: Multimodal

Storytelling, Seriality and Social Reading / Sara Tanderup Linkis

12. Fictionality in Theory Fiction and Autotheory / Torsa Ghosal

13. Multimodal Autobiographies / Wolfgang Hallet

14. Postscript / Marie-Laure Ryan

Contributors

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Ghosal, Torsa Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives

ISBN:

9781496236739

1496236734

9781496236722

1496236726

OCLC:

1390966648