Chapter 1 A Semiotic Theory of Multimodality for the Divine Comedy

• Main Author: De Benedictis, Raffaele (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2024
• Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary theory; Philosophy of language; semiotics, multimodality, divine comedy, Literary Criticism, Multiliteracy, language-as-writing, signification
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Summary

In this chapter the author lays out a theoretical groundwork for a semiotic theory of multimodality in the Divine Comedy. The analysis is not comprehensive of all modes, but limited to key-modal forms that Dante's text authorizes in order to understand the formation of codes based on different forms of articulation and how different modes of articulation may interact with one another in a multimodal arrangement to achieve strong, functional signification in general and, where necessary, working toward the formation of new ontologies intimating human transcendence in terms of signification.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (65 p.)

ISBN

9781003397298-1
9781032497334
9781032501925

Access

Open Access