ABSTRACT
The questions that follow are neither defi nitive nor exhaustive. While the reader will fi nd echoes of certain issues covered in the preceding chapters, he or she will also encounter a range of new starting points for research on multimodal storytelling. What is clear is that this enterprise will need to be a richly interdisciplinary affair in which scholars from many fi elds pool their areas of expertise to investigate complex narrative experiences. As contemporary narrative analysis continues to broaden its focus, turning its attention to stories of all sorts, we invite you to use these closing questions as one means of charting a path through a territory large areas of which remain to be explored. This territory is the place where narrative and multimodality intersect.
