{"product_id":"chaucers-losers-nintendos-children-and-tison-pugh-9781496217615","title":"Chaucer's Losers, Nintendo's Children, and Other Forays in Queer Ludonarratology","description":"Tison Pugh examines the intersection of narratology, ludology, and queer studies, pointing to the ways in which the blurred boundaries between game and narrative provide both a textual and a metatextual space of queer narrative potential. By focusing on these three distinct yet complementary areas, Pugh shifts understandings of the way their play, pleasure, and narrative potential are interlinked. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through illustrative readings of an eclectic collection of cultural artifacts--from Chaucer's \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e to Nintendo's \u003ci\u003eLegend of Zelda \u003c\/i\u003efranchise, from Edward Albee's dramatic masterpiece \u003ci\u003eWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?\u003c\/i\u003e to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter fantasy novels--Pugh offers perspectives of blissful ludonarratology, sadomasochistic ludonarratology, the queerness of rules, the queerness of godgames, and the queerness of children's questing video games. Collectively, these analyses present a range of interpretive strategies for uncovering the disruptive potential of gaming texts and textual games while demonstrating the wide applicability of queer ludonarratology throughout the humanities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tison Pugh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496217616\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496217615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Tison Pugh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44064826458367,"sku":"9781496217615","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_67ada69d-931b-45ba-837e-6e5dd9f0a11e.jpg?v=1685397796","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chaucers-losers-nintendos-children-and-tison-pugh-9781496217615","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}