Affiliation:
1. Universidade de Aveiro
Abstract
Abstract
In this article we focus on the multimodal novel, a genre category with virtually no tradition in Portuguese
literary theory and criticism. By exploring multiple strategies of plurissemiotic convergence, multimodal narratives aren’t
restricted to verbal expression, as conventionally associated with literary fiction, but creatively resort to different modes
and/or media, which synergistically cooperate with the printed word in the production of literary meaning. In the light of the
theoretical framework laid down by the thriving field of multimodal narratology, we propose a reading of Hífen
(2021), the latest novel by Portuguese writer Patrícia Portela, undoubtedly one of the contemporary novelists in whose fiction
multissemiotic cross-fertilization is more blatantly explored.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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