...Theresa Krampe; Stephanie Lotzow; Jan-Noël Thon Abstract This article sets out to explore the playful poetics of recent indie games in terms of what could be described as metareferential interfaces . Drawing on a range of theories from literary studies, media studies, and game studies, we propose...

... but consider all four as only potential triggers of any actual literary experience. . Failing to detect a common conceptual denominator for board games, card games, ball games, and other kinds of games, Ludwig Wittgenstein especially Sections  and likened their interconnections to the ‘‘complicated...

... fellows or victims of infinite jest. Participants in their own versions of the novel s Eschaton games, they obses- sively pursued hazardous goals laid upon them by some sinister or unreadable plan, and they knew it.1 And at the same time, they could tell one another of a radiance they had experienced...

... , translated by Weaver William ( New York : Harvest/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich ). 1977b [1973] Note in 1977a : 123 – 29 . Cannon JoAnn 1979 “ Literature as Combinatory Game: Italo Calvino’s The Castle of Crossed Destinies ,” Critique 21 : 83 – 91 . Corti Maria 1973...

..., memories and testimonies [all of which reservations, incidentally, are equally applicable to the depositions taken from indicted Nazis] of indi- vidual survivors as evidence to construct a history that otherwise, for lack of evidence, would not exist Browning’s account of the pitfalls and advan- tages...

... recitation: performances in which the voice of the indi- vidual was always associated with the reiteration of historical narrative. They note that the advent of writing uncoupled this intimate relationship, enabling the realization...

... themes.To this mix I would add romance, associated with Lydia, as picaresque is predominantly though not exclusively asso- 3. As a chess player might say about openings, different lines of play can be transposed into the same game. One can get to the position I describe by way of Chicago Aristotelianism...

... North American periodicals, see Wimsatt 1939: 144–46. Grimstad • Antebellum AI 113 to win chess games against volunteers picked from the audience, Poe was fascinated by the effect it had on a paying spectator and was convinced that the machine was a fake...

... and the two other criteria. Narratorial omniscience can, indeed, be taken for a ‘‘sign- post namely a textual feature serving as a means of guidance or an indi- cation of the text’s status (although, as I will shortly claim, it is doubtful whether it is, in fact, such a permanent or obligatory indicator...

... Cobley), photonovels ( Jan Baetens and Mieke Bleyen in a joint article), photo-docu- mentaries (Markku Lehtima¨ki), the Internet (Ruth Page), and video games (David Ciccoricco). There is also an article (by Alison Gibbons) that focuses on a literary work distinguished by a highly foregrounded visual...

... Cobley), photonovels ( Jan Baetens and Mieke Bleyen in a joint article), photo-docu- mentaries (Markku Lehtima¨ki), the Internet (Ruth Page), and video games (David Ciccoricco). There is also an article (by Alison Gibbons) that focuses on a literary work distinguished by a highly foregrounded visual...

... Cobley), photonovels ( Jan Baetens and Mieke Bleyen in a joint article), photo-docu- mentaries (Markku Lehtima¨ki), the Internet (Ruth Page), and video games (David Ciccoricco). There is also an article (by Alison Gibbons) that focuses on a literary work distinguished by a highly foregrounded visual...

...” (both television and film, Paul Cobley), photonovels ( Jan Baetens and Mieke Bleyen in a joint article), photo-docu- mentaries (Markku Lehtima¨ki), the Internet (Ruth Page), and video games (David Ciccoricco). There is also an article (by Alison Gibbons) that focuses on a literary work distinguished...

... narratives” (both television and film, Paul Cobley), photonovels ( Jan Baetens and Mieke Bleyen in a joint article), photo-docu- mentaries (Markku Lehtima¨ki), the Internet (Ruth Page), and video games (David Ciccoricco). There is also an article (by Alison Gibbons) that focuses on a literary work...

... Cobley), photonovels ( Jan Baetens and Mieke Bleyen in a joint article), photo-docu- mentaries (Markku Lehtima¨ki), the Internet (Ruth Page), and video games (David Ciccoricco). There is also an article (by Alison Gibbons) that focuses on a literary work distinguished by a highly foregrounded visual...

...- aging to free itself: Frequently he starts from the stereotype, from the banal opinion which is in him. And it is because he does not want that stereotype (by some aesthetic or indi- vidualist reflex) that he looks...

...: Spectra). Cayley, John 1998 “Of Programmatology,” Mute 11 (fall): 72 -75. Cayley, John forthcoming “Literal Art: Neither Lines nor Pixels but Letters,” in First Person: New Media as Story,Performance, and Game , edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan (Cambridge: MIT Press). Chance...

... to enter the circle, all these elements of the erotic game return, yet in reversed form. First of all, one can observe a clear change of roles. When the poet admonishes a friend to purge himself and become prepared for the moment, When you are roused by the god, Bound in the breath...

... (as compared to what he says he thinks about it), and com- pares it to that of several other pragmatic and poststructuralist philosophers in a way that undermines the opposition the editors have claimed. She indi- cates how Wittgenstein’s perspective underwrites the possibility of the study of cultural...

... the other. I cannot know the other from inside and so on. That is not an obstacle but the condition of love, of friendship, and of war, too (quoted in Illouz 2012: 183). In both love andwar, encountering strangers and figuring out their intentions are a high-stakes game. For this reason, Derrida deems love...