Gertrude Stein plays video games

• Authors: Paweł Schreiber

Abstracts

EN

The article juxtaposes the problems of spatiality and repetition in video game narrative with Gertrude Stein’s notion of the landscape play, in which the linear plot dissolves in favour of a complex network of connections between different elements of the work. Several examples are discussed, from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to the Dark Souls series, showing the possible links between video games and Stein’s writing techniques, especially in the field of open world games, where the large, easily accessible spaces make it more difficult to build coherent, organised plots.

Keywords

EN

landscape; video game narrative; Gertrude Stein; The Legend of Zelda; play

• Publisher: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna
• Year: 2021
• Issue: English Issue 2021
• Pages: 167-188

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Paweł Schreiber

• Kazimierz the Great University in Bydgoszcz

• https://orcid.org/0000000190941741

translator

Paweł Schreiber

• Kazimierz the Great University in Bydgoszcz

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Identifiers

DOI

10.34762/wv0w-yp58

Biblioteka Nauki

1955909