Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-251) and index. - Multimodality -- Towards a Multimodal Cognitive Poetics -- Crossing Thresholds and the Exploring Reader of "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski -- Embodiment and the Book that Bleeds: VAS: An Opera in Flatland by Steve Tomasula with Stephen Farrell -- Cowitnessing trauma in reading Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer -- Cut, Paste, Repair, but Read: Woman's World by Graham Rawle