MULTIMODALITY IN CONTEMPORARY SPANISH NARRATIVE: THREE WAYS OF INTEGRATING THE NON-VERBAL DISCOURSE

This paper proposes an approach to multimodality within literary studies from a two-fold perspective: first, it introduces the concept of multimodality in the field of contemporary Spanish narrative; second, it studies three ways in which the verbal discourse and other semiotic modes can interact with each other within a novel. These have been usually put aside due respectively to their apparent redundancy, lack of connection, or contradiction.