List of Figures Permissions Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Multimodality 3. Towards a Multimodal Cognitive Poetics 4. Creating Thresholds and the Exploring Reader of House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 5. Embodiment and the Book that Bleeds: VAS: An Opera in Flatland by Steve Tomasula with Stephen Farrell 6. Cowitnessing trauma in reading Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer 7. Cut, Paste, Repair, but Read: Woman’s World by Graham Rawle 8. Conclusion
Biography
Alison Gibbons is Lecturer in English at De Montfort University, Leicester. Alison has published internationally in a number of journals and collections, including New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality (Routledge, 2009). She is co-editor of Mark Z. Danielewski (Manchester University Press, 2011) and Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature (Routledge 2011).
