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The article On the structure of gameworld in narrative video games proposes to introduce the term ‘ludotopia’ to Polish game studies in order to further compartmentalise the structure of video gameworld. Having reflected on the consequences of so-called world-centered turn in contemporary digital humanities, the author proceeds to defining archetypal structures that compose realities designed for the purposes of narrative video games, namely: locations and clusters of locations, the latter divided further into biomes and anthromes. The hierarchy introduced thereby is presented as an alternative for already influential (though, arguably, in transmedial world-building studies rather than game studies) trichotomy of mythos, topos, and ethos, as defined by Lisbeth Klastrup and Susana Tosca. In the end, the article cross-references the new structural hierarchy of ludotopographical components with a matrix of popular fantastic settings, seeking to delineate possible similarities between ludotopias and allotopias that would inform both game scholars and game designers on the ways of rapid prototyping of aesthetically diverse imaginary worlds.
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The article Silmarillion—J. R. R. Tolkien’s Allotopia From Ardological Perspective aims at outlining the methodology for studying Tolkien’s world-building project without the need of acknowledging the text-centered reading paradigm. Having differentiated tolkienology, as text-focused, philological studies, from ardology, understood as world-building studies, Maj deconstructs the use of Tolkienian’s “subcreation” in literary theory as far too indebted in the metaphysics of presence to establish a neutral framework for studying the process of constructing a fictional reality. With the examples from Silmarillion—perhaps the best instance of modern mythography, in no way resembling the narrative arc of a prototypical fantasy novel—the author builds up on the notion of “allotopia” as the world independent insofar to create its own ontologies, topographies, languages, philosophy, history, literature, art, or even physical artifacts—without the need of anchoring the overall creation in a metaphysical paradigm. Correspondingly, the text offers an insight to a number of theories in postclassical narratology or postmodern philosophy that may help in understanding the scale of Tolkien’s solemn contribution to the art of fantastic world-building.
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Artykuł jest pierwszą kompleksową próbą stworzenia teoretycznego zaplecza dla nierozpowszechnionego w polskiej humanistyce terminu „allotopia”, ukutego przez Umberta Eco w eseju Światy science fiction. W miejsce podążania za poststrukturalistycznym wywodem Umberta Eco, przedstawiona zostaje propozycja zdekonstruowania binarnej relacji między realnym (naturalnym, zwyczajnym, znanym, empirycznym i realistycznym) a nierealnym (nienaturalnym, nadzwyczajnym, nieznanym, kontrempirycznym i fantastycznym) światem — jako obowiązującej w dotychczasowych badaniach nad gatunkami fantastycznymi. W konsekwencji, artykuł zachęca do ponowoczesnego odczytywania tych „allotopijnych” tekstów, które rezygnują z wspierania kolonialnego modelu dwuświata na rzecz filozoficznie świadomego światotwórstwa.
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The article is the first Polish attempt to provide a theoretical framework for a relatively unknown term ‘allotopia’, coined by Umberto Eco in essay Il mondi della fantascienza. However, instead of following rather poststructuralist Eco’s reasoning, the text proceeds with the deconstruction of the underlain dichotomy between real (natural, ordinary, known, empirical, realistic) and unreal (unnatural, extraordinary, unknown, counterempirical, fantastic) world — which is subsequently exposed as fundamental for heretofore fantasy and SF studies. Consequently, the paper encourages postmodern reading of those ‘allotopian’ texts that resign from supporting a colonial, two-world model in favour of philosophy conscious worldbuilding.
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The article introduces the reader to the phenomenon of the so-called world-centeredness as well as to the world-centered turn in contemporary narrative theory. Having delineated cultural, economic, and transmedial aspects of the turn in question, the author discusses the problem of academic discrimination against fantasy, science fiction, and similar genres in Polish literary theory of the 20th and 21st centuries. This aims for redirecting the focus of literary theory towards more neglected aspects of artistic production such as world-building (instead of storytelling), immersion (instead of closereading), and performatic worldplay (instead of backgrounding the diegetic world). All these new phenomena are suggested for inclusion in postclassical narrative studies applied to analysing fantasy, science fiction, and other forms of fantastika across the media.
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Artykuł wprowadza polskiego czytelnika w problematykę światocentryczności i zwrotu światocentrycznego we współczesnej teorii narracji. Nakreśliwszy kulturowe, ekonomiczne i transmedialne aspekty rzeczonego zwrotu, autor porusza problem dyskryminacji fantasy, science fiction oraz nurtów pokrewnych w akademickim piśmiennictwie teoretycznoliterackim XX i XXI wieku w Polsce. Celem tego jest przekierowanie uwagi teorii literatury na ignorowane dotąd aspekty twórczości artystycznej, takie jak choćby światotwórstwo (w miejsce fabułotwórstwa), imersja (w miejsce uważnego czytania) i performatywna światogra (w miejsce traktowania świata jako tła wydarzeń fabularnych). Wszystkie te zjawiska postuluje się włączyć w obręb postklasycznych studiów narratologicznych wykorzystywanych do analizy fantasy, science fiction oraz innych form fantastyki na przestrzeni różnych mediów.
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