Intermediality and Storytelling

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.

About the author

Marina Grishakova, University of Tartu, Estonia; Marie-Laure Ryan, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

Product details

• Assisted by: Marin Grishakova (Editor), Marina Grishakova (Editor), Ryan (Editor), Ryan (Editor), Marie-Laure Ryan (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.01.2011
• EAN: 9783110237733
• ISBN: 978-3-11-023773-3
• No. of pages: 353
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 25 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 655 g
• Illustrations: 34 b/w and 13 col. ill., 13 Abb. 4c zusätzlich
• Series: Narratologia; Narratologia; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies