TY - GEN T1 - Chaucer's losers, Nintendo's children, and other forays in queer ludonarratology T2 - Frontiers of narrative. A1 - Pugh, Tison LA - English PP - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press YR - 2019 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1125006231 AB - Tison Pugh examines the intersection of narratology, ludology, and queer studies, pointing to the ways in which the blurred boundaries between game and narrative provide both a textual and a metatextual space of queer narrative potential. By focusing on these three distinct yet complementary areas, Pugh shifts understandings of the way their play, pleasure, and narrative potential are interlinked. Through illustrative readings of an eclectic collection of cultural artifacts--from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to Nintendo's Legend of Zelda franchise, from Edward Albee's dramatic masterpiece Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter fantasy novels--Pugh offers perspectives of blissful ludonarratology, sadomasochistic ludonarratology, the queerness of rules, the queerness of godgames, and the queerness of children's questing video games. Collectively, these analyses present a range of interpretive strategies for uncovering the disruptive potential of gaming texts and textual games while demonstrating the wide applicability of queer ludonarratology throughout the humanities. OP - 268 CN - PN56.H57 SN - 9781496218858 SN - 149621885X SN - 9781496218834 SN - 9781496218841 SN - 1496218833 SN - 1496218841 SN - 9781496217615 SN - 1496217616 KW - Ludonarrative : History and criticism. KW - Video games : Psychological aspects. KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Rhetoric and psychology. KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative. KW - Queer theory. KW - Homosexuality in literature. KW - Gender identity in literature. KW - Jeux vidéo : Aspect psychologique. KW - Narration. KW - Rhétorique et psychologie. KW - Discours narratif. KW - Théorie queer. KW - Homosexualité dans la littérature. KW - Identité de genre dans la littérature. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Media Studies. KW - Video games : Psychological aspects KW - Rhetoric and psychology KW - Queer theory KW - Discourse analysis, Narrative KW - Gender identity in literature KW - Homosexuality in literature KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -