Digital Gaming Re-imagines the Middle Ages

Herausgeber: Kline, Daniel T.

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Produktbeschreibung

Digital gaming's cultural significance is often minimized much in the same way that the Middle Ages are discounted as the backward and childish precursor to the modern period. Digital Gaming Reimagines the Middle Ages challenges both perceptions by examining how the Middle Ages have persisted into the contemporary world via digital games as well as analyzing how digital gaming translates, adapts, and remediates medieval stories, themes, characters, and tropes in interactive electronic environments. At the same time, the Middle Ages are reinterpreted according to contemporary concerns and conflicts, in all their complexity. Rather than a distinct time in the past, the Middle Ages form a space in which theory and narrative, gaming and textuality, identity and society are remediated and reimagined. Together, the essays demonstrate that while having its roots firmly in narrative traditions, neomedieval gaming-where neomedievalism no longer negotiates with any reality beyond itself and other medievalisms-creates cultural palimpsests, multiply-layered trans-temporal artifacts. Digital Gaming Re-imagines the Middle Ages demonstrates that the medieval is more than just a stockpile of historically static facts but is a living, subversive presence in contemporary culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9780415630917
• ISBN-10: 0415630916
• Artikelnr.: 37226997

Autorenporträt

Daniel T. Kline is Professor of English at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "All Your History Are Belong to Us": Digital Gaming
Re-imagines the Middle Ages Daniel T. Kline Part 1: Prehistory of Medieval
Gaming 1. The Right to Dream of the Middle Ages: Simulating the Medieval in
Tabletop RPGs William J. White Part 2: Gaming Re-imagines Medieval
Traditions 2. "Best and Only Bulwark": How Epic Narrative Redeems Beowulf
the Game Candace Barrington and Timothy English 3. Systematizing Culture in
Medievalism: Geography, Dynasty, Culture, and Imperialism in Crusader
Kings: Deus Vult Jason Pitruzzello 4. The Portrayal of Medieval Warfare in
Medieval: Total War and Medieval 2: Total War Greg Fedorenko 5. Gabriel
Knight: A Twentieth-Century Chivalric Romance Hero Angela Tenga Part 3:
Case Study 1 - World of Warcraft 6. Coloring Tension: Medieval and
Contemporary Concepts in Classifying and Using Digital Objects in World of
Warcraft Elysse T. Meredith 7. Sir Thomas Malory and the Death Knights of
New Avalon: Imagining Medieval Identities in World of Warcraft Kristen
Noone and Jennifer Kavetsky 8. Accumulating Histories: A Social Practice
Approach to Medievalism in High Fantasy MMORPGs Jennifer C. Stone, Peter
Kudenov, and Teresa Combs 9. "Awesome Cleavage": The Genred Body in World
of Warcraft Kim Wilkins Part 4: Case Study 2 - Dante's Inferno, The Game
10. The Game's Two Bodies, or the Fate of Figura in Dante's Inferno Bruno
Lessard 11. Courtly e-Violence, Digital Play: Adapting Medieval Courtly
Masculinities in Dante's Inferno Oliver Chadwick 12. Shades of Dante:
Virtual Bodies in Dante's Inferno Timothy J. Welsh and John T. Sebastian
13. The Middle Ages in the Depths of Hell: Pedagogical Possibility and the
Past in Dante's Inferno Angela Jane Weisl and Kevin J. Stevens Part 5:
Theoretical and Representational Issues in Medieval Gaming 14. We Will
Travel by Map: Maps as Narrative Spaces in Videogames and Medieval Texts
Thomas Rowland 15. Author, Text, and Medievalism in The Elder Scrolls
Michelle DiPietro 16. Technophilia and Technophobia in Online Medieval
Fantasy Games Nick Webber 17. The Consolation of Paranoia: Conspiracy,
Epistemology, and the Templars in Assassin's Creed, Deus Ex, and Dragon Age
Harry J. Brown Part 6: Sociality and Social Media in Medieval Gaming 18.
Casual Medieval Games, Interactivity, and Social Play in Social Network and
Mobile Applications Serina Patterson