Literary Gaming
By Astrid Ensslin
By Astrid Ensslin
By Astrid Ensslin
By Astrid Ensslin
Category: Gaming Manuals | Puzzles & Games
Category: Gaming Manuals | Puzzles & Games
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$35.00
Aug 15, 2023 | ISBN 9780262548830
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Mar 14, 2014 | ISBN 9780262322041
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Praise
Literary Gaming is a fascinating and detailed scholarly exploration of this fairly new field of academic inquiry.—Leonardo—
Table Of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
1 Introduction 1
I Theory and Methodology
2 Playing with Rather Than by Rules 19
3 Between Ludicity and Literariness 37
II Analyses
4 “The Pen Is Your Weapon of Choice”: Ludic Hypertext Literature and the Play with the Reader 57
5 “Love Poem or Break Up Note?” Ludic Hypermedia Fiction and Loss of Grasp 73
6 “Your Innocence Drifts Away”: Antiludicity and Ludic Mechanics in The Princess Murderer 89
7 Of Windsighs and Wayfaring: Blue Lacuna, an Epic Interactive Fiction 105
8 The Paradox of Poetic Gaming: evidence of everything exploding 123
9 From Paidia to Ludus: The Path, a Literary Auteur Game 141
10 Conclusion 161
Notes 165
References 173
Glossary 193
Index 201
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