Buch, Englisch, Band 98, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 289 g
Literary Godgames in Anglophone Literature from Chaucer to Atwood
Buch, Englisch, Band 98, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 289 g
Reihe: Schriftenreihe Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN: 978-3-86821-972-2
Verlag: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
This volume brings together thoughts and ideas about “godgames” I gathered over many years and in various educational and academic contexts. The term
godgame
– or, most often,
god game
spelled in two words – appears quite regularly today in the context of computer games and science fiction and fantasy literature. What I want to show in this study is that such godgames, as defined by British novelist John Fowles, have existed for many centuries not only in the realm of fantasy literature and include many works that are central to the traditional literary canon(s). The godgame offers the chance of bringing together authors and works that have crept up at various points of my academic life and whose mention within the context of one single work of literary criticism might at first sight seem somewhat challenging: Chaucer’s
Canterbury Tales,
Shakespeare’s
Measure for Measure
and
The Tempest,
Milton’s
Paradise Lost,
and nineteenth- and twentieth- or even twenty-first-century authors from North America and Britain such as Herman Melville, Margaret Atwood, Robert Kroetsch, Michael Innes and Ian McEwan – and films such as
The Game
(1997) and
The Truman Show
(1998), or even science fiction movies such as
The Matrix.
CONTENTS
0. Preface 1
1. Godgames – a Fascinating and not so New Topic 4
2. The Prototypical Godgame Novel: John Fowles’s
The Magus
8
3. Chaucerian Godgames in
The Pardoner’s Tale
17
4. Shakespearian Godgames in
Measure for Measure
and
The Tempest
25
5. Miltonic Godgames from
Comus
to
Paradise Lost
36
6. Melvillean Godgames in
The Confidence-Man
48
7. Godgames in Michael Innes’s Oxford (… and Elsinore) 58
8. Ian McEwan’s Godgames in
Amsterdam
and
Machines Like Me
66
9. Robert Kroetsch: Godgames of a Novelist, Teacher and Scholar 74
10. Atwoodian Godgames:
Oryx and Crake
and
Hag-Seed
82
11. Godgames in Science Fiction, Horror Narratives and Film 102
12. Stephen Scobie’s Godgames in the Griffin’s Wood 113
13. Godgames and Brexit: Stanley Johnson et al. 119
14. Being Taught and Teaching Through Godgames 127
15. Works Cited 131
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