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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453587603321

Autore

Ensslin Astrid

Titolo

Literary gaming / / Astrid Ensslin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-262-32203-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

794.8

Soggetti

Internet games - Social aspects - Philosophy

Digital media - Philosophy

Interactive multimedia - Philosophy

Hypertext fiction - History and criticism

Fantasy games - Philosophy

Play (Philosophy)

Intermediality

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; I Theory and Methodology; 2 Playing with Rather Than by Rules; 3 Between Ludicity and Literariness; II Analyses; 4 "The Pen Is Your Weapon of Choice": Ludic Hypertext Literature and the Play with the Reader; 5 "Love Poem or Break Up Note?" Ludic Hypermedia Fiction and Loss of Grasp; 6 "Your Innocence Drifts Away": Antiludicity and Ludic Mechanics in The Princess Murderer; 7 Of Windsighs and Wayfaring: Blue Lacuna, an Epic Interactive Fiction; 8 The Paradox of Poetic Gaming: evidence of everything exploding

9 From Paidia to Ludus: The Path, a Literary Auteur Game 10 Conclusion; Notes; References; Glossary; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A new analytical framework for understanding literary videogames, the literary-ludic spectrum, illustrated by close readings of selected works.