Multimodal Poetics in Contemporary Fiction: Design and Experimentation in North and Central American Texts, by Thomas Mantzaris
Multimodal Poetics in Contemporary Fiction: Design and Experimentation in North and Central American Texts, by Thomas Mantzaris
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Multimodal Poetics in Contemporary Fiction explores contemporary fiction from a multimodal perspective, shows how technological advancements in the digital era have informed contemporary print-based literary production, and offers an understanding of design as a significant resource for narrative content in literature.
Published: October 25, 2024
Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature
This book explores the growing body of multimodal literary texts: books that creatively experiment with the potential of design to represent narrative content. Examining five North and Central American novels from the first two decades of the twenty-first century, this study draws attention to texts that combine verbal text (writing) with non-verbal elements (photographic images, varied typography, maps, color, etc.) as integral parts of their narratives. Their experimentation both reconfigures the potential for print-based (and born-digital) fiction in the future, and holds a mirror to past practices of design and typography that were rendered invisible, or which received limited attention by authors, publishers, and readers. By placing the five case studies and related texts within a broader history of experimentation in literature, this book demonstrates how multimodal novels have changed the conceptualization of narrative content in literary texts and ushered in a new era for fiction.
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