Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing
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Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing

A Practical Guide

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eBook - ePub

Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing

A Practical Guide

About this book

Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide offers 24 case studies of mainstream and independent video games from Tetris to The Sims, Undertale to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Assassin's Creed to Gone Home in order to introduce key video game and literary studies concepts, ideas, definitions, and possibilities. This book also includes a brief history of video games and literature, critical questions and suggested readings for each chapter, and a collection of prompts, activities, and assignments for students and instructors to engage, adapt, and explore. This book is designed to be useful, modular, and playful, to provoke questions and conversation, to encourage connections and collaboration, and to inspire critical thinking.

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Yes, you can access Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing by Edmond Y. Chang,Timothy J. Welsh in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: Gaming Our Classrooms
  10. Lore I: Literary Gaming
  11. 1 ImmorTall
  12. 2 Tetris
  13. 3 The Beginner’s Guide
  14. 4 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
  15. 5 BioShock
  16. 6 Assassin’s Creed
  17. 7 Undertale
  18. Side Quests I
  19. Lore II: Literature and Video Games
  20. 8 The Sims
  21. 9 The Walking Dead
  22. 10 Portal
  23. 11 Red Dead Redemption
  24. 12 Super Columbine Massacre RPG!
  25. 13 Dark Souls
  26. 14 NBA 2K18
  27. 15 PokƩmon GO
  28. 16 Minecraft
  29. Side Quests II
  30. Lore III: Gamifying Literature
  31. 17 Loved
  32. 18 Animal Crossing: New Horizons
  33. 19 Dragon Age: Origins
  34. 20 Barbie Dreamtopia Adventure Games
  35. 21 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
  36. 22 Queers in Love at the End of the World
  37. 23 When Rivers Were Trails
  38. 24 Gone Home
  39. Side Quests III
  40. Lore IV: Getting Messy
  41. Index