Contemporary Narrative: Textual Production, Multimodality and Multiliteracies

Abstract

This book is the outcome of work undertaken in different disciplinary locations over a number of years. As a result, it brings to the study of contemporary narrative a cross-disciplinary perspective rooted in Translation Studies and Applied Linguistics as well as Narratology and Comparative Literature. The book aims to place contemporary narrative production in the context of social and technological developments and to point to the cultural and linguistic factors which have a bearing on the kinds of narratives produced as well as impacting on their mode of representation. Adopting a case study approach, the book illustrates, through analysis of pertinent examples, the extent to which narratives today can be seen to relate to a number of critical and creative dimensions. These dimensions are explored in the book in relation to the key concepts of multimodality, multiliteracies and translation.