At the annual conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association in July 2019, just under 15% of the 150 papers were devoted to stylistics and multimodality, analyzing film, internet sites, tweets, and computer games, for example, in response to changing (digital) technologies in the new millennium, and building on analyses of more traditional media data, such as news and advertising. At first glance, a monograph on the “multimodality” of the novel might seem odd, since it is not conventionally seen in those terms. But Nørgaard's justification is twofold: that there are semiotic resources for all novelists, which can be seen as inherently multimodal; and that, in the twenty-first century, in particular, an increasing number of novels feature quite explicit semiotic experimentation around the actual text, pushing the boundaries of form and content.
Accordingly, she aims to provide at book length a new comprehensive analytical framework combining what is essentially a...
