Transmedia Storyworlds, Literary Theory, Games

Gore Galore: Literary Theory and Computer Games

Computer games have not been adequately theorized within the humanities. In this paper a brief history of computer games is presented as a starting point for developing a topology of games and a theory of computer games as rhetorical artifacts suitable for critical study. The paper addresses the question of why games should be treated seriously and suggests a theoretical approach based on Backh...

The World of The Walking Dead – Transmediality and Transmedial Intermediality

As transmedia franchises increasingly populate our cultural environment, many questions arise about the effect of the different media involved in the depiction of storyworlds. Through the analysis of different examples, with special emphasis on the particular case of The Walking Dead, and drawing primarily from Henry Jenkins’s concept of “transmedia aims to show how different media aesthetics c...

Nihilism, Relativism, and Literary Theory

Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive o...

Reconfiguring Narrative in Contemporary Board Games: Story-Making Across the Competitive-Cooperative Spectrum

simplistic notions of ‘fidelity’ to an ‘original’ text. In 1975, Geoffrey Wagner formulated three categories of filmic adaptation: ‘transposition’, a direct transfer to screen with minimum apparent interference; ‘commentary’, which retains the core structure despite some alteration or reinterpretation; and ‘analogy’, which involves a significant departure from the source text in order to create...

Bibliography/Bibliography of Literary Theory and Criticism (2)