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Victorians and Videogames will examine how games interact with nineteenth-century genres, aesthetics, and literary themes as a means of engaging, critiquing, or challenging their original contexts. In essence, this collection will consider the ways in which embodied, user-driven storytelling can impact new and challenging engagements with the nineteenth century in the contemporary world. This book contains four categories that summarize major trends in nineteenth-century-oriented games. The first section, “Ludic and Narrative Intertextuality,” examines games that directly adapt nineteenth-century texts, considering how ludic and literary elements work together to produce new commentary o...
Digitale Spiele haben sich zu einem neuen Leitmedium entwickelt. Hohe Branchenumsätze und eine stetig steigende Spieler*innenzahl bestimmen das Bild – und auch die Wissenschaft hat längst ihr Interesse für den Gegenstand entdeckt. Anhand von 50 ausgewählten Computer- und Videospielen stellen die Beiträger*innen die Vielfalt und Anziehungskraft dieses Mediums vor. So bieten sie Studierenden und Forschenden, Pädagog*innen und Journalist*innen sowie Spieler*innen eine fundierte Übersicht über 40 Jahre digitale Spiele und deren Bedeutung für wissenschaftliche, gesellschaftliche und kulturelle Fragen.
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This book contains almost 4,000 Homer Laughlin dinnerware patterns in full color, plus hundreds of additional photographs, advertisements, pamphlets, and the history of The Homer Laughlin China Company and its dinnerware. Represented are dinnerware patterns from pre-1900 to current Fiesta? patterns and everything in between.
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A basic how-to guide for both the beginning & experienced potter.
This biography of Joseph Severn (1793-1879), the best known but most controversial of Keats's friends, is based on a mass of newly discovered information, much of it still in private hands. Severn accompanied the dying Keats to Italy, nursed him in Rome and reported on his last weeks there in a famous series of moving letters. After Keats's death in relative obscurity, Severn pressed hard for an early biography and a more fitting memorial in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. In the nineteenth century Severn's friendship with Keats was seen as a model of devoted masculine companionship and he was reburied by popular acclaim next to Keats in 1882. In the twentieth century, by contrast, he was d...
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