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The Book of Genesis and other allegorical origin stories of games
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 1, Page 1-18, February 2025.Abstract This essay delves into the complex interplay between the sacred and the ludic, with a particular emphasis on allegorical origin stories from various religious and mythological traditions, highlighting their portrayal of games and the concept of play. The analysis includes the Judaeo‐Christian Book of Genesis and the Babylonian Enuma Elish.
Bo Kampmann Walther
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Playing with Identity. Authors, Narrators, Avatars, and Players in The Stanley Parable and The Beginner’s Guide [PDF]
, 2019 This article offers a comparative analysis of Davey Wreden’s The Stanley Parable (Wreden 2011 / Galactic Cafe 2013) and The Beginner’s Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd.
Backe, Hans-Joachim, Thon, Jan-Noël
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Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 28, Issue 5, Page 79-98, November 2024.Abstract This article focuses on alternative ways of understanding language in the context of minority language advocacy through an examination of the Galician tradition of singing‐in‐verse, known as regueifa. It proposes the notion of “linguistic collective action” to refer to the battery of resistance and solidarity strategies that lead to social ...
Bernadette O'Rourke +1 more
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No TV for Woodpeckers by Gary Barwin, If Pressed by Andrew McEwan, and Ecology without Culture: Aesthetics for a Toxic World by Christine L. Marran [PDF]
, 2018 Review of Gary Barwin\u27s No TV for Woodpeckers, Andrew McEwan\u27s If Pressed, and Christine L.
Sloane, Michael D
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Racial literacy and performative pedagogies in the German theater practicum
Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 145-161, Fall 2024.Abstract This article explores the potential and pitfalls of performative pedagogies for teaching literature that thematizes issues of race and racism and argues that racial literacy requires a rethinking of drama‐pedagogical practice. An initial segment situates pedagogical discussions of race in North American German curricula within research on ...
Morgan Koerner
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Making an Influence: Sponsorship and Creolization on Social Media
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 228-256, July/August/September 2024.When Shenseea say: “I’m a leader when it comes to my ShenYengs. And, whatever I want, I achieve in life. I lead first. I set the trends, you feel me? It doesn’t matter if the world is against me, I’m gonna do what I want to do, because I am the alpha. I am strong.
Cheryl A. McLean
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To Like Or Not to Like, That Is the Question [PDF]
, 2016 Perhaps the most ubiquitous and basic affective decision of daily life is deciding whether we like or dislike something/somebody, or, in terms of psychological emotion theories, whether the object/subject has positive or negative valence.
Hofmann, Markus J. +2 more
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Navigating Physical and Digital Environments: Latin American Video Game Studies in Practice
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 263-276, June 2024.This article reflects on developments in research into Latin American video games two decades after the first studies in the field. In particular, it fills a gap in research by reflecting on the pedagogical uses of video games, focusing both on their value in the undergraduate classroom and on the design of educational games for use by school children,
Paul R. Merchant +2 more
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, 2018 In the period 1954-1974 the Dutch artist known as Constant (Constant Nieuwenhuys, 1920-2005) elaborated a series of artworks and writings depicting a future urban agglomeration: New Babylon. Stretching over the whole globe, New Babylon hosts wandering
Terrenato, Francesca
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Illusions of textuality: The semiotics of literary memes in contemporary media
Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 4-6, April-June 2024.Abstract This article seeks to account for the phenomenon where cultural productions are able to transcend different chronotopes and masquerade in myriad forms while sustaining an illusion of itself as a text. Using the Barthian distinction between work and Text as its framework, the article argues that multimodal semiotics offers a theoretically ...
Tong King Lee
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