Ruth Page is a Reader in the School of English at Birmingham City University. She is the author of Literary and Linguistic Approaches to Feminist Narratology (Palgrave, 2006), and co-editor of New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age (UNP, forthcoming).

• List of Figures and Tables Permissions Acknowledgments 1. Introduction, Ruth Page 2. Multimodal Storytelling: Performance and Inscription in the Narration of Art History, Fiona J. Doloughan 3. A Multimodal Approach to Mind Style: Semiotic Metaphor vs. Multimodal Conceptual Metaphor, Rocío Montoro 4. The Computer-based Analysis of Narrative and Multimodality, Andrew Salway 5. Opera: Forever and Always Multimodal, Michael Hutcheon and Linda Hutcheon 6. Word-Image/Utterance-Gesture: Case Studies in Multimodal Storytelling, David Herman 7. "I contain multitudes": Narrative Multimodality and the Book that Bleeds, Alison Gibbons 8. Multimodality and the Literary Text: Making Sense of Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Nina Nørgaard 9. Electronic Multimodal Narratives and Literary Form, Michael Toolan 10. Gains and Losses? Writing it All Down: Fanfiction and Multimodality, Bronwen Thomas 11. Respiratory Narrative: Multimodality and Cybernetic Corporeality in ‘Physio-Cybertext’, Astrid Ensslin 12. Cruising Along: Time in Ankerson and Sapnar, Jessica Laccetti 13. Beyond Multimedia, Narrative and Game: The Contributions of Multimodality and Polymorphic Fictions, Christy Dena 14. Keg Party Extreme and Conversation Party: Two Multimodal Interactive Narratives Developed for the SMALLab, Sarah Hatton, Melissa McGurgan and Xiang-Jun Wang 15. Coda/Prelude: 18 Questions for the Study of Narrative and Multimodality, David Herman & Ruth Page Notes on Contributors Index

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