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Visual Devices in Contemporary Prose Fiction

Gaps, Gestures, Images

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. Simon Barton

    1. School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. An Introduction to Visual Devices in Contemporary Prose Fiction

    • Simon Barton
    Pages 1-26

  3. Reading Textual Gaps

    • Simon Barton
    Pages 27-67

  4. Textual Gestures: Iconic Text and Narrative

    • Simon Barton
    Pages 68-91

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

    • Simon Barton
    Pages 92-122

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

    • Simon Barton
    Pages 123-152

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

    • Simon Barton
    Pages 153-171

  8. Conclusions

    • Simon Barton
    Pages 172-178

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 179-202
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

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

    Simon Barton

About the author

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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