37.2687, Books: Multimodality and the Arts: Tarantini, Fiordilino, and Chojnicka (eds.) (2026)

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Date: 17-Aug-2026
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Multimodality and the Arts: Tarantini, Fiordilino, and Chojnicka (eds.) (2026)


Title: Multimodality and the Arts
Subtitle: Creative and Performative Processes as Intersemiotic
Translation
Series Title: Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/multimodality-and-the-arts-9781350526150/

Editor(s): Angela Tiziana Tarantini, Irene Fiordilino and Joanna
Chojnicka

Hardback, 9781350526150, £95.00

Abstract:

Researchers, translators, practitioners and artists join voices in
this volume to explore the profound relationship between multimodality
and translation. Looking at the subject from a wide range of
perspectives, this book questions the possibility of redefining art
practices and artworks as forms and processes of intersemiotic
translation.
Exploring the connection between multimodality, translation and the
arts, the authors uncover the many overlooked practices of translation
which are already inherent in artistic research and in the production
of multimodal artworks and texts. In the process, they demystify the
notion of multimodality as a matter of artistic inquiry only,
examining the processes of embodied, collaborative, kinetic, material,
and intersemiotic translation which artists have always undertaken
within their work.
The book is divided into four distinct yet interrelated sections. Part
One explores multimodality as a key notion to re-conceptualise
translation in the arts, encompassing poetry, site-specific
performance, and creative cuisine. Part Two is dedicated to
translation, music and sound, while in Part Three, the connection
between dance, embodied practices, and translation is investigated and
presented through non-conventional essays which are themselves
multimodal texts. Finally, Part Four contains the transcripts of
conversations between artists and scholars in which artists explore,
explain and unravel the relationship between their creative process
and the process of translation, offering unique practical and
experiential insights into the subject. The strong focus on the
performative arts gives the book an interdisciplinary perspective at
the interface of language and art.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Translation




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