LEADER 04010nam 22007215 450 001 9910899891603321 005 20250807153034.0 010 $a9783031688737 010 $a3031688732 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-68873-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31740192 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31740192 035 $a(CKB)36393941800041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31747771 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31747771 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-68873-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936393941800041 100 $a20241025d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMultimodal Poetics in Contemporary Fiction $eDesign and Experimentation in North and Central American Texts /$fby Thomas Mantzaris 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (205 pages) 311 08$a9783031688720 311 08$a3031688724 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Relaunching the Print Novel: Mark Z. Danielewski?s House of Leaves -- Chapter 3. Enhancing the Print Novel: Jonathan Safran Foer?s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close -- Chapter 4. Layering the Print Novel: Handwriting and Material Artifacts in J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst?s S -- Chapter 5. Crafting the Print Novel: Book Design and Narrative Content in Zachary Thomas Dodson?s Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel -- Chapter 6. Archiving the Print Novel: Valeria Luiselli?s Lost Children Archive -- Chapter 7. Epilogue. 330 $aThis 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. Thomas Mantzaris is an affiliated researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. His research interests include multimodal and experimental narratives, contemporary American and Anglophone fiction, printed books, and photography. 606 $aIntermediality 606 $aDigital humanities 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aBooks$xHistory 606 $aIntermediality 606 $aDigital Humanities 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 606 $aHistory of the Book 615 0$aIntermediality. 615 0$aDigital humanities. 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aBooks$xHistory. 615 14$aIntermediality. 615 24$aDigital Humanities. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 615 24$aHistory of the Book. 676 $a302.226 700 $aMantzaris$b Thomas$01767603 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910899891603321 996 $aMultimodal Poetics in Contemporary Fiction$94213922 997 $aUNINA