Description
A new critical method for the Divine Comedy which focuses not only on language-as-writing but also and equally on other discursive modes that the Divine Comedy authorizes. Multimodality was already present in Dante窶冱 time, and the reception of the Divine Comedy took place multimodally. Thus, a theoretical study of multimodality carried out under the semiotic lens sheds light on how and why a mode is more effective than another and/or how they may combine in producing signification and new ontologies warranted by Dante窶冱 text. Also, we do not yet have a critical theory that allows us to understand the function of multimodality for the creation of new forms of signification and of clarifying the ontological boundaries set forth by different modalities. It is a new and original study which contributes to the advancement of Dante Studies, Literary Criticism (with a focus on literary semiotics), Multimedia/Multiliteracy, philosophy of language, communication, and education.
Chapters 1, 2, and 5 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. .
Table of Contents
List of abbreviations
1. A Semiotic Theory of Multimodality for the Divine Comedy
2. The Semiotics of Multimodality in Discourse
3. Early and Recent Forms of Multimodality in the Inferno
4. Purgatorio窶冱 Signifying Modes
5. Modality of Transcendental Signification in the Paradiso
6. Conclusion
Index
