Visual Devices in Contemporary Prose Fiction

1. Front Matter

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2. An Introduction to Visual Devices in Contemporary Prose Fiction

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   Pages 1-26

3. Reading Textual Gaps

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   Pages 27-67

4. Textual Gestures: Iconic Text and Narrative

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   Pages 68-91

5. Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative: Images in Prose Fiction

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   Pages 92-122

6. Case Study 1: Raymond Federman’s Double or Nothing: A Real Fictitious Discourse (1992)

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   Pages 123-152

7. Case Study 2: William H. Gass’s Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife (1968)

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   Pages 153-171

8. Conclusions

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   Pages 172-178

9. Back Matter

   Pages 179-202

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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.

• Graphic Narrative
• Multi-modal fiction
• Experimental literature
• Avant-garde literature
• Reading process
• avant-garde literature
• experimental literature
• fiction
• multi-modal fiction
• Narrative
• novel

• School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, UK

  Simon Barton

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.

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