Author: Curtis D. Carbonell
Publisher: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies
ISBN: 1789620570
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Dread Trident examines the rise of imaginary worlds in tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs), such as Dungeons and Dragons. With the combination of analog and digital mechanisms, from traditional books to the internet, new ways of engaging the fantastic have become increasingly realized in recent years, and this book seeks an understanding of this phenomenon within the discourses of trans- and posthumanism, as well as within a gameist mode. The book explores a number of case studies of foundational TRPGs. Dungeons and Dragons provides an illustration of pulp-driven fantasy, particularly in the way it harmonizes its many campaign settings into a functional multiverse. It also acts as a supreme example of depth within its archive of official and unofficial published material, stretching back four decades. Warhammer 40k and the Worlds of Darkness present an interesting dialogue between Gothic and science-fantasy elements. The Mythos of HP Lovecraft also features prominently in the book as an example of a realized world that spans the literary and gameist modes. Realized fantasy worlds are becoming ever more popular as a way of experiencing a touch of the magical within modern life. Reworking Northrop Frye's definition of irony, Dread Trident theorizes an ironic understanding of this process and in particular of its embodied forms.
Dread Trident
Author: Curtis D. Carbonell
Publisher: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies
ISBN: 1789620570
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Dread Trident examines the rise of imaginary worlds in tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs), such as Dungeons and Dragons. With the combination of analog and digital mechanisms, from traditional books to the internet, new ways of engaging the fantastic have become increasingly realized in recent years, and this book seeks an understanding of this phenomenon within the discourses of trans- and posthumanism, as well as within a gameist mode. The book explores a number of case studies of foundational TRPGs. Dungeons and Dragons provides an illustration of pulp-driven fantasy, particularly in the way it harmonizes its many campaign settings into a functional multiverse. It also acts as a supreme example of depth within its archive of official and unofficial published material, stretching back four decades. Warhammer 40k and the Worlds of Darkness present an interesting dialogue between Gothic and science-fantasy elements. The Mythos of HP Lovecraft also features prominently in the book as an example of a realized world that spans the literary and gameist modes. Realized fantasy worlds are becoming ever more popular as a way of experiencing a touch of the magical within modern life. Reworking Northrop Frye's definition of irony, Dread Trident theorizes an ironic understanding of this process and in particular of its embodied forms.
Publisher: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies
ISBN: 1789620570
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Dread Trident examines the rise of imaginary worlds in tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs), such as Dungeons and Dragons. With the combination of analog and digital mechanisms, from traditional books to the internet, new ways of engaging the fantastic have become increasingly realized in recent years, and this book seeks an understanding of this phenomenon within the discourses of trans- and posthumanism, as well as within a gameist mode. The book explores a number of case studies of foundational TRPGs. Dungeons and Dragons provides an illustration of pulp-driven fantasy, particularly in the way it harmonizes its many campaign settings into a functional multiverse. It also acts as a supreme example of depth within its archive of official and unofficial published material, stretching back four decades. Warhammer 40k and the Worlds of Darkness present an interesting dialogue between Gothic and science-fantasy elements. The Mythos of HP Lovecraft also features prominently in the book as an example of a realized world that spans the literary and gameist modes. Realized fantasy worlds are becoming ever more popular as a way of experiencing a touch of the magical within modern life. Reworking Northrop Frye's definition of irony, Dread Trident theorizes an ironic understanding of this process and in particular of its embodied forms.
Jonson, Shakespeare and Early Modern Virgil
Author: Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521032742
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Examines how Virgil is represented in early modern England, particularly in Jonson's and Shakespeare's writings.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521032742
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Examines how Virgil is represented in early modern England, particularly in Jonson's and Shakespeare's writings.
The Plays of William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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The Plays of William Shakspeare ...
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Pages : 518
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The Plays
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Pages : 600
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Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Midsummer night's dream
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Pages : 518
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: Glossarial index. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Pages : 390
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The Plays of William Shakspeare. In Fifteen Volumes
Author: William Shakespeare
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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The Plays, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Pages : 604
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The plays of William Shakspeare, accurately pr. from the text of mr. Steevens's last ed., with a selection of the most important notes [collected by J. Nichols].
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Pages : 600
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