...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...

... absurdity of the situation they were in. They, too, held up the skulls of their anatomy lab Yoricks, all 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...

..., an analysis of the additions to an image in ekphrasis that narrativizes can help to explain why interpre- tations of events in our world differ as much as they do. Vargas Llosa’s In Praise of the Stepmother offers examples of ekphrasis that narrativizes indi- vidual paintings. Calvino’s Castle...

... a variety of different, often conflicting and contradictory, in some cases clearly mis- taken, 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...

... 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...

... “meaningless [to it] symbols” into moves in the game, creates the illusory effect of somebody (or something) that “knows” how to play chess, just as Maelzel’s exhibition—as the word exhibition literally indi- cates—“showed mechanism without itself being mechanical, and provoked evaluation of the secret...

..., Richard 1973 Tristram Shandy: The Games of Pleasure (Los Angeles: University of California Press). Miller, J. Hillis, ed. 1971 Aspectsof Narrative: Selected Papers from the EnglishInstitute (New York: Columbia University Press). Preston John 1970 The Created Self: The Reader's Role...

... 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...

...” (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...

... 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...

... book of The Star of the Covenant,whichdevelopsakindof dialogue between the poet and those wanting 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...

...: Wittgenstein on the Aesthetic succinctly reconciles Wittgenstein’s think- ing about poetry (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...

... 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 and war the sine qua non of the modern existence defined by stranger sociality.6...