CRWR 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Game Studies, Umberto Eco, Elizabethan Era
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Are video games worth studying (literary perspective: artifice. com, december 31 2016 by matt sautman, graduate fellow & masters student w/ focus in both teaching of writing & The written word: traditional view: written work valued for superior & artistic merit, well-written word, not everything that is written can be literature. Literature instead is an achievement it must set new precedent & build upon tradition that came before it - Umberto eco: write, linguist, philosopher, best known for ii nome della rose. Hyper-reality & memory: player moved by games in way that written literature & movies cannot move them, games give user literary & literal memory of having done something themselves, building sense of hyper-reality. Your efforts to take photographs entangle you into revolution: the fates of those around you hinge on consequences of your choices, based on true stories & historical events.
