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Pattern poetry and ludic relief in Zeina Hashem Beck’s oeuvre
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThis article analyzes the playful use of language and poetic form developed by the Lebanese poet Zeina Hashem Beck as a kind of ludic relief from discomforting topics, such as war, physical and mental illness, death, assault, and exile, predominant ...
Doris Hambuch +3 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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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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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 45-58, March 2024.Abstract This essay discusses the use of epistolarity in a pamphlet controversy that played out over a published sermon by the Bishop of Exeter and a critical response by Benjamin Hoadly. While the political, religious, and social aspects of the resulting pamphlet war are substantial, the present article discusses how the form of the letter was ...
Gerd Bayer
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Play in the city: Parkour and architecture [PDF]
, 2011 The ability to play freely in our cities is essential for sustainable wellbeing. When integrated successfully into our cities, Urban Play performs an important role; physically, socially and culturally contributing to the image of the city.
Guaralda, Mirko, Rawlinson, Christopher
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There's No Place Like Home: Dwelling and Being at Home in Digital Games [PDF]
, 2019 This chapter considers the presence, in digital games, of experiences of dwelling. Starting with an engagement with the philosopher Edward S. Casey's distinction between hestial and hermetic spatial modes, the chapter argues that the player's spatial ...
Vella, Daniel
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Player agency in interactive narrative: audience, actor & author [PDF]
, 2007 The question motivating this review paper is, how can computer-based interactive narrative be used as a constructivist learn- ing activity? The paper proposes that player agency can be used to link interactive narrative to learner agency in ...
Hammond, S., Pain, H., Smith, Tim J.
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'The Greek Fall: Simulacral Thanatotourism in Europe' [PDF]
, 2012 The paper explores the socio-cultural dynamics of Greek demonstrations in 2011, suggesting that their function exceeds that of social movements as we know them.
Tzanelli, R
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Modelling Creativity: How Might It Help Us Understand What We Do? [PDF]
, 2013 This article takes as its starting point a number of models of creativity, which can be broadly subdivided into cognitive (Boden, Csikszentmihalyi, Weisberg, Finke et al); social (Csikszentmihalyi, Boden); behavioural (Amabile); and those related to ...
McLoughlin, Nigel F
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