Visual Devices in Contemporary Prose Fiction
Gaps, Gestures, Images
Published on 29. October 2015
Book
Hardback
IX, 202 pages
978-1-137-46735-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
1st ed. 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
IX, 202 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
395 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-46735-5 (9781137467355)
DOI
10.1057/9781137467362
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
E-Book
01/2016
Palgrave Macmillan
€53.49
Available for download
Book
01/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
€85.59
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Person
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.
Content
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 Double or Nothing: A Real Fictitious Discourse (1992) 6: Case Study 2: William H. Gass's Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife (1968) 7: Conclusions Bibliography Index