Multimodality, in its most fundamental sense, is the coexistence of more than one semiotic
mode within a given context. More generally, multimodality is an everyday reality. It is the …

The end of deep reading is a commonplace in public debates, whenever societies talk about
youth, books, and the digital age. In contrast to this, we show for the first time and in detail …

The term fanfiction (sometimes abbreviated as fanfic) refers to stories produced by fans
based on plot lines and characters from either a single source text or else a “canon” of …

From Instapoetry to BookTube, contemporary literary cultures and practices are increasingly
intertwined with social media. In this lively and wide-ranging study, Bronwen Thomas …

Partly in response to debates surrounding participatory culture and what's been dubbed
'web 2.0', writers in fan studies have recently made use of John Fiske's classic (1992) …

Literature after Postmodernism explores the use of literary fantastic storylines in
contemporary novels which begin to think beyond postmodernism. They develop an …

Postdigital Storytelling offers a groundbreaking re-evaluation of one of the most dynamic
and innovative areas of creativity today: digital storytelling. Central to this reassessment is …

What is narrative? Ridvan Askin brings together aesthetics, contemporary North American
fiction, Gilles Deleuze, narrative theory and the recent speculative turn to answer this …

This chapter explores approaches and understandings of fan studies to theorize forms of
(higher‐cultural) media consumption where fandom may not be explicitly or commonly used …

The Routledge Companion to Literary Media Page 1 Page 2 Astrid Ensslin is Professor of
Digital Cultures and Communication at the University of Regensburg in Germany. She has …