Visual Devices in Contemporary Prose Fiction - Gaps, Gestures, Images

Informationen zum Autor Dr Simon Barton is an Associate Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Salford, UK, where he teaches on Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature modules. He specializes in Modern and Contemporary Literature, with a focus on the experimental and avant-garde. Klappentext This book acknowledges that the reader of a novel looks at and sees the page before they begin to read any text placed upon it. Thus, any disruptions to how a traditional page 'should look' can have a large impact on the reading process. The book critically engages with the visual appearance of graphically innovative contemporary prose fiction. Zusammenfassung This book acknowledges that the reader of a novel looks at and sees the page before they begin to read any text placed upon it. Thus! any disruptions to how a traditional page 'should look' can have a large impact on the reading process. The book critically engages with the visual appearance of graphically innovative contemporary prose fiction. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Acknowledgements 1: An Introduction to Visual Devices in Contemporary Prose Fiction 2: Reading Textual Gaps 3: Textual Gestures: Iconic Text and Narrative 4: Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative: Images in Prose Fiction 5: Case Study 1: Raymond Federman's (1992) 6: Case Study 2: William H. Gass's (1968) 7: Conclusions Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Simon Barton
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.10.2015
• EAN: 9781137467355
• ISBN: 978-1-137-46735-5
• No. of pages: 211
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); B, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Literature—Philosophy