Multimodality in literature for children and young people and its aesthetic and digital experimentation

Abstract

This article discusses the plurality and expansion of contemporary literature, especially the one produced for children and young people, in which aesthetic experimentation is prominent, both through the potential of verbal language and the material possibilities of the book object. Exploring the concept of literature in the expanded field and its relationship with multimodality, the text analyses three works: A queda dos moais ( The fall of the moai , in free translation), by Blandina Franco, Patricia Auerbach and José Carlos Lollo; Wild symphony , by Dan Brown; and the Mobeybou series. These works exemplify different approaches to the use of multimodality and intermediality, from those that do not use digital technologies to those that rely heavily on them. The analysis aims to understand how these aesthetic and technological strategies impact on the young reader’s experience. The text is structured in four sections, in addition to the introduction and final considerations, which discuss the relationship between multimodality, literature in the expanded field and technology in contemporary literary production.

Keywords:
Multimodality; Literature in the expanded field; Literature for Children and Young People; Intermediality