Ruth Page offers a new approach to analyzing the relationships between gender and narrative. Proposing an integrative framework for feminist narratology, she draws on literary and linguistic perspectives, illustrated by an interrogation of literary texts, from different historical periods and expressive traditions, and non-literary narratives.

The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not consist of words alone, and demonstrate the ways in which multimodality brings into fresh focus the embodied nature of narrative production and processing. Engaging with a spectrum of multimodal storytelling, from 'low tech' examples encompassing face-to-face stories, comic books, printed literature, through to opera, film adaptation and television...