Intermediality and Storytelling

Marina Grishakova (Curatore)

Marie-Laure Ryan (Curatore)

De Gruyter, 2010

The ‘narrative turn’ in the humanities, which expanded the study of narrative to various disciplines, has found a correlate in the ‘medial turn’ in narratology. Long restricted to language-based literary fiction, narratology has found new life in the recognition that storytelling can take place in a variety of media, and often combines signs belonging to different semiotic categories: visual, auditory, linguistic and perhaps even tactile. The essays gathered in this volume apply the newly gained awareness of the expressive power of media to particular texts, demonstrating the productivity of a medium-aware analysis. Through the examination of a wide variety of different media, ranging from widely studied, such as literature and film, to new, neglected, or non-standard ones, such as graphic novels, photography, television, musicals, computer games and advertising, they address some of the most fundamental questions raised by the medial turn in narratology: how can narrative meaning be created in media other than language; how do different types of signs collaborate with each other in so-called ‘multi-modal works’, and what new forms of narrativity are made possible by the emergence of digital media.

• Curatore: Marina Grishakova, Marie-Laure Ryan
• Editore: De Gruyter
• Collana: Narratologia
• Anno: 2010
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 359 p.
• Dimensioni: 230 x 155 mm
• Peso: 657 gr.
• EAN: 9783110237733

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