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Dr Alistair Brown | Associate lecturer in English Literature; researching video games and literature

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Through exploring the psychopathology of Capgras syndrome, in which a patient mistakes a loved one for an imposter, The Echo Maker offers a sustained meditation on the ways in which we project our own problems onto other people. As a reflection on the mysteries of consciousness, the novel offers some interesting if not especially new insights into the fuzzy boundaries between scientific and literary interpretations of the mind. Read more


Are Video Games Literature?

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

I'm pleased to have contributed a guest post to Oliver Tearle's excellent Interesting Literature blog, in which I give a general overview of some of my current thinking about games and literature. It's a little bit provocative, but hopefully also stimulating. Here's the first paragraph to pique your interest:
To ask “Are video games literature?” seems a pointless kind of question, like pondering whether a film is the same thing as a poem, or whether a Rembrandt painting tastes like cheese. Yet asking this question is a necessary provocation, because it helps us to think about how and why video games and literature might elicit similar reactions in their players or readers, even if they set about this process in quite different ways...
If you want to read more, head on over to Interesting Literature.

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