Fictionality and Multimodal Narratives (Frontiers of Narrative)

By: Alison Gibbons and Torsa Ghosal

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 324 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781496236722
Related ISBNs:: 9781496222879
Publisher:: Nebraska
Date of Addition:: 08/01/23
Copyrighted By:: the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Torsa Ghosal
Edited by:: Alison Gibbons