Contemporary Narrative: Textual production, multimodality and multiliteracies

Case studies are on fiction, literature in translation, non-fiction, film, graphic novels and multimedia texts.

Fiona J. Doloughan is Lecturer in English at The Open University, UK.

1. New Perspectives on Narrative \ 2. Intermodal Translation: verbal and visual narratives \ 3. Intermedial Translation: narrative and the new media \ 4. Intercultural Translation: language and culture as narrative resource \ 5. Cultural Transformations of Narrative \ 6. Narratives of Travel and Travelling Narratives \ Contemporary narratives: concluding remarks \ Glossary of key terms and concepts \ Further Reading \ References \ Index

'Covering a range of storytelling practices--including novels, photographs, graphic narratives, cinema, and digital narratives--this illuminating study combines insights from narratology, translation studies, comparative literature, linguistics, and social semiotics to establish an interdisciplinary framework for research on contemporary narrative. The book, which features a helpful glossary, suggestions for further reading, and an extensive bibliography, provides a lucid, well-organized account of key problem areas in the field, including the interplay between the verbal and the visual in multimodal narration, the translation of stories across languages, media, and cultures, and the nature of narrative literacy (or literacies). With its broad scope, analytic rigor, and compelling use of specific case studies, Contemporary Narrative constitutes an invaluable contribution to the field.'