Recensione del volume Multimodality and Aesthetics di Elise Seip Tønnessen and Frida Forsgren, eds.

Multimodality is not only a term related to audiovisual products, but it is the way human perception works. This could explain why it is being increasingly acknowledged within humanities (Kress et al. 2001; Bateman 2014) –despite the seemingly inherent contradiction between the analytical tendency to set pieces apart that often characterises research and the need to see multimodalproductsas a whole. This contradiction, which had most likely caused the delay in appreciatingthe role of multimodalityin various fields of knowledge, is more and more often being compensated with volumes trying to apply multimodal approaches or points of view to other disciplines.