Tag: literary criticism
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In Defense of Play: A rereading of Caillois’ “Man, Play, and Games”
Groos came to seein play the guarantor of youth: “Animals also do not play because they are young; they are young because they have toplay.”82 He therefore distinguished play activity involving (a) the sensory apparatus (the sense of touch,heat, taste, odor, hearing, color, shape, movement, etc.); (b )the motor apparatus (feeling about, destruction and analysis,construction…
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Book Review: As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Pre-History of Virtual Reality
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In an age where the boundary between reality and fantasy is becoming increasingly blurred, the allure of fictional worlds has captured the imagination of millions. In his groundbreaking book “As If,” author Michael Saler delves into the depths of this phenomenon, dissecting the fascinating interplay between enchantment, irony, and reason in the modern world. Saler’s…
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Speaking of Power Plays! Michael Foucault and the Politics of Gaming
These video games provide rich examples of the ways in which power and knowledge operate within different fictional worlds, and offer insight into how these forces shape the beliefs, behaviors, and relationships of the characters and players within them
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They Shall Be As Fetching As They Are Deadly: A Reader Responds to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Oh, The Mash-Up Novel and the tedious relationship between Cultural Production and Cultural Preservation. Pride and prejudice and Zombies… is as important as Pride and Prejudice itself? Let the discussions begin!
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The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States
Oh, Murakami, you sly fox, you mercurial and fluid, thread a web between East and west that we at once desperately need and can’t quite comprehend. And yet we return, thirsty and increasingly drunk of the elixir that is the product of your craft.