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The Interplay between Real Money Trade and Narrative Structure in Massively Multiplayer Online Role‐Playing Games

open access: yesInternational Journal of Computer Games Technology, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
A narrative structure is one of the main components to constitute the genre of Massively Multiplayer Online Role‐Playing Games (MMORPGs). Meanwhile Real Money Trade (RMT) enables a player to adjust an ex post level of challenge by skipping the narrative structure of a game.
Byungchul Park   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond belief : the crisis of faith in A.S. Byatt's fiction

open access: yesJournal of English Studies, 2012
A. S. Byatt’s Ragnarök (2011), a retelling of the Norse myth of the downfall of the gods and the end of the world, would seem to be a departure from her fictional narratives set in the nineteenth or twentieth century.
Jennifer Anne Johnson
doaj   +1 more source

La triple menace eschatologique dans The Lord of the Rings de Tolkien

open access: yesCaliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2020
A place of desolation where blood-red flames stand out against pitch-black darkness. A barren land where the grass does not grow. The dwelling of a big fiery eye, without lids, threatening to spread its power throughout Middle-earth...
Eline de Mathuisieulx
doaj   +1 more source

The Spaewife’s Prophecy: A Verse Translation of the Norse Poem Vǫluspá, with an Introduction and Notes

open access: yesScandinavian-Canadian Studies, 2017
: The epic poem Vǫluspá, in which an ancient seeress foretells to Odin the tragic fate awaiting his son Baldr and the eventual destruction of the gods at Ragnarǫk, is an acknowledged masterpiece of medieval literature.
Judith Woolf
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Mitologiczne oraz chrystologiczne spojrzenie na twórczość J.R.R. Tolkiena, część 1 – Mity Świata Germańskiego

open access: yesRocznik Skrzatuski
The article is an excerpt from Rev. Jakub Sitarz’s master’s thesis devoted to the question of whether it is possible to find Christological motifs in Tolkien’s Legendarium without overinterpretation. The abstract section of the thesis using the method of
Jakub Sitarz
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The AD 536/540 climate event in Sweden – a review

open access: yesBoreas, Volume 54, Issue 1, Page 1-13, January 2025.
The middle of the first millennium AD in Sweden witnessed significant changes in the archaeological record, prompting various discussions about the underlying causes. This paper reviews the research developments surrounding the global climate cooling, which was caused by severe volcanic eruptions in AD 536/540 and is referred to as the Late Antique ...
Eirini Anagnostou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The 2023 International Planning Competition

open access: yesAI Magazine, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 280-296, Summer 2024.
Abstract In this article, we present an overview of the 2023 International Planning Competition. It featured five distinct tracks designed to assess cutting‐edge methods and explore the frontiers of planning within these settings: the classical (deterministic) track, the numeric track, the Hierarchical Task Networks (HTN) track, the learning track, and
Ayal Taitler   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Boreal ecopoetics: Christian Dotremont's site‐specific writing in Sápmi

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 264-279, June 2024.
Abstract Northern Fennoscandia entered Christian Dotremont's (1922–1979) imagination in 1956. The Belgian avant‐gardist was comfortable in Central‐European artistic milieus through his involvement in CoBrA (1948–1951), but a total of 12 journeys to Sápmi between 1956 and 1978 had a profound effect on his creative work, especially the logograms he is ...
Sami Sjöberg
wiley   +1 more source

RE-WRITING OLD NORSE MYTHOLOGY – SIRI PETTERSEN’S "ODINSBARN"

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2017
Re-writing Old Norse Mythology – Siri Pettersen’s Odinsbarn. The article focuses on one of the contemporary Norwegian novels that re-write Old Norse mythology.
Cristina VIȘOVAN
doaj   +1 more source

Fimbulvetr tra ecocritica e critica del testo

open access: yesFilologia Germanica
Considerando la Vǫluspá, le testimonianze eddiche e scaldiche ad essa correlate e il loro adattamento nel trattato retorico di Snorri (con la pervasiva influenza dell’erudizione tardo-antica e della tradizione cristiana sulla loro fissazione scritta ...
Adele Cipolla
doaj   +1 more source

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