The Art of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Multimodal Perspective

Using Dan Brown's Wild Symphony, Craig Silvey's The Amber Amulet, and Jon McGregor's In Winter the Sky as its case studies, this article attempts to explore a number of mechanisms strategies contributing multimodal fiction construction posing challenges for modern readers all ages. proposes examine resonance cognitive mechanism enhancing emotional impact stories on recipients triggering receptive narrative empathy. Various semiotic resources, both free such photos, maps, illustrations, bound ones, including font types typographical experiments, are analyzed from standpoint their role in fictional world creation. makes an original contribution Multimodal Stylistics Studies by hypothesizing relevance identifying two distinctive foregrounding: visual foregrounding range formal ways construct text that focuses reader's attention with help graphic foregrounding, which has resources at heart. findings research prove it is combination elements stylistic, linguo-semiotic analyses might provide new effective methodology interpreting literary text. overall outcome testifies importance further into varied complex phenomenon essential our better understanding embodied character reading.