Multimodalność jako narzędzie narracyjne w literaturze kryminalnej
Multimodality as a Narrative Device in Crime Fiction

Author(s): Ksenia Olkusz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Multimodality; literary theory; crime fiction; focalization; narratology
Summary/Abstract: The article is focused on the analysis of the concept of multimodality in crime fiction, providing an outline of the multitude of the utilized narrative devices. This various aspects of multimodality are studied in visual (typography, layout, illustrations, binding, composition), audial or diegetic context, as well as in the ways the narrative may be focalized. This predominantly aesthetic components are not merely illustrating the plot, but serve as vehicles for world‑building as they contribute for constructing credible and immersive storyworlds. The exemplified works of crime fiction, both founding for the genre, and more contemporaneous, are viewed as relevant for postclassical narrative studies which therefore allows for revising the structural stereotypes of crime fiction from 60s.

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