Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature
Author | : Alison Gibbons |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2012-05-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781136632211 |
ISBN-13 | : 1136632212 |
Rating | : 4/5 (212 Downloads) |
Download or read book Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature written by Alison Gibbons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with visual and multimodal devices in twenty-first century literature, exploring canonical authors like Mark Z. Danielewski and Jonathan Safran Foer alongside experimental fringe writers such as Steve Tomasula, to uncover an embodied textual aesthetics in the information age. Bringing together multimodality and cognition in an innovative study of how readers engage with challenging literature, this book makes a significant contribution to the debates surrounding multimodal design and multimodal reading.