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Mimicry – Principle of Identity Transformation from the Perspective of Digital Games Theory

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Rusňáková L.
Communication Today
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2016
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vol. 7
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issue 2
18–29
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The article focuses on man’s identity in the environment of digital games. Special attention is given to clarifying one of Roger Caillois’s game principles (mimicry) and its application into the process of creating digital games. The author defines corresponding terminological axis and works with an assumption that the reflection on identity transformation related to digital ‘mimicry games’ remains a subject of discourse analysis in the dimension of digital game studies. One of the aims of the article is thus to define the term “game” from the position of game studies, taking into account its multidisciplinary character. The analysed game principle mimicry is specified in greater detail; the existence of direct connection between ‘mimicry games’ and simulated, interactive or fantasy games represents an important base for further inquiry and is placed in the centre of the author’s attention. Based on the defined theoretical outlines, the author has an opportunity to apply the acquired information directly on specific games that may be classified as digital ‘mimicry games’. The primary goal of the article is therefore to address the given phenomenon by explaining its presence and meaning in the context of various digital games.
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AESTHETICS OF VIOLENCE IN TIM STAFFEL'S NOVELS (Timm Staffel. Aesthetik der Gewalt)

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Szalagiewicz M.
Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny
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2010
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vol. 57
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issue 4
411-429
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The article presents the work of a contemporary German writer Tim Staffel in context of the recent German literature and in particular the literature about the German reunification (Wendeliteratur). The analysis of the novels of Tim Staffel show the relationship between the aesthetics of violence used by the author and the problem of identity crisis described in his works. The comparison of Staffels novel Terrordrom with the discourse of the Wenderoman reveals differences in perception of the problems of identity and ideological crisis, which express themselves in a different construction of the presented world and time and a different approach to the theme of violence. This analysis and interpretation aims to show Staffels writing as attempt to go beyond the discourse of the Wendeliteratur and the discourse of a national literature in general. In this sense Terrordrom is not only an anti-utopian vision, an apocalyptic scenario of the future and the war of all against all, but also a diagnosis of the contemporary human condition and warning against the increasing influence of mass media on reality creation. Staffel points out in his novel the fact, that in such a media-generated reality, violence seems to be the last human reaction to a dehumanized world.
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