多模态文学作品指利用多种模态符号建构意义和推进叙事的文学作品，是旨在创新文学作品形式和设计的一种实验文学。小说属于高度复杂的多模态文学作品，它不仅对作者的创作要求极具挑战性，而且对读者的解读和欣赏也提出了更高的要求。在传统文学作品中视而不见的排版和布局成为多模态小说的意义模块，图像不再是对文字的说明，色彩也为小说整体意义的建构作出贡献。 该书的研究对象是印刷版多模态小说，本书的作者在研究印刷版多模态文学作品意义建构的模态符号和分析此类多模态文学语篇特征的基础上，通过对现有的多模态功能文体学理论框架进行补充和完善，建构了一个适用于书面多模态文学作品文体分析的理论框架，并在多模态小说的文体分析中得到应用。

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 Purpose of the Study
1.3 Methodology
1.4 Significance of the Study
1.5 Organization of the Book
Chapter 2 The Appearance of Multimodal Stylistics
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Functional Stylistics
2.3 Corpus Stylistics
2.4 Multimodal Stylistics
2.5 Summary
Chapter 3 Basic Concepts and Fundamental Theories of Multimodal Stylistics
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Definition of Multimodal Stylistics
3.3 Modes in Multimodal Stylistics
3.4 The Grammars of Different Modes
3.5 Theories of Inter-semiotic Relations
3.6 Basic Theories of Multimodal Stylistics
3.7 Summary
Chapter 4 Theoretical Construction of the Multimodal Stylistic Analytical Framework
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Multimodal Literature
4.3 Theoretical Basis for Multimodal Stylistics
4.4 Basic Modes in Printed Multimodal Novels
4.5 Discourse Features of Multimodal Novels
4.6 The Multimodal Stylistic Analytical Framework
4.7 Summary
Chapter 5 A Stylistic Analysis of the Verbal Mode of the Novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
5.1 Introduction
5.2 An Introduction to the Novel
5.3 Trauma and Its Therapy
5.4 An Analysis of the Context of Situation of the Novel
5.5 A Stylistic Analysis of the Verbal Mode of the Novel
5.6 Summary
Chapter 6 Stylistic Analyses of the Nonverbal Modes of the Novel
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Nonverbal Modes of the Novel
6.3 A Stylistic Analysis of the Photographic Images
6.4 A Stylistic Analysis of Typography of the Novel
6.5 A Stylistic Analysis of Layout
6.6 A Stylistic Analysis of Color
6.7 Summary
Chapter 7 Multimodal Coordination and the Construction of the Style of the Novel
7.1 Introduction
7.2 A Stylistic Analysis of Inter-semiotic Relations
7.3 Integration of the Experiential Meanings of Different Modes
7.4 Construction of the Multimodal Style of the Novel
7.5 Summary
Chapter 8 Muitimodal Stylistic Features and the Shaping of Characters in Woman's World
8.1 Introduction
8.2 An Introduction to the Novel Woman's World and Its Main Characters
8.3 Studies on Character and the Shaping of Character in Literary Works
8.4 A Theoretical Model for Multimodal Shaping of Characters
8.5 Multimodal Stylistic Features and the Shaping of Norma and Roy
8.6 Summary
Chapter 9 A Comparative Study on the Stylistic Features of the Two Covers of Woman's World
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Covers of Printed Literary Works
9.3 An Introduction to the Covers of Woman's World
9.4 An Approach for the Stylistic Analysis of Book Cover
9.5 A Comparative Study on the Multimodal Stylistic Features of the Two Covers
9.6 Summary
Chapter 10 Conclusion
10.1 Major Findings of the Study
10.2 Limitations
10.3 Suggestions for Future Research
References
Appendix Ⅰ
Appendix Ⅱ
Appendix Ⅲ
Appendix Ⅳ