Sammendrag
Today's multimodal novels - that is, novels that integrate images and visual forms into the narration and utilise the pictorial quality of script - emphasize the media-specific possibilities of the printed book. By foregrounding the novel's materiality, they often involve the reader in a meta-reflection on the compositional, material and social practices of writing and reading narratives. "S" by J.J. Abrams and Dough Dorst (2013), for instance, presents itself as a library copy of a fictive author's novel and confronts the reader with different physical documents enclosed as loose inserts as well as marginalia by 'prior readers' starting a dialogue and dispute over the very book. The turn to the materiality of narrative and the foregrounded 'aesthetic of bookishness' (Pressmann 2009) can be seen as a self-confident plea for the printed book in the digital age. Against this backdrop, my talk presents contemporary multimodal novels as a test case for a media-ecological narratology.
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