Jonathan Boulter: 3 books
Parables of the Posthuman
Digital Realities, Gaming, and the Player Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
In its intimate joining of self and machine, video gaming works to extend the body into a fluid, dynamic, unstable, and discontinuous entity. While digital gaming and culture has become a popular field of academic study, there has been a lack of sustained philosophical analysis of this direct gaming...
Melancholy and the Archive
Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers such as David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami and Jose Saramago. The book explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memory-the archive...
by Dr Jonathan Boulter
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) is one of the most important twentieth century writers. Seen as both a modernist and postmodernist, his work has influenced generations of playwrights, novelists and poets. Despite his notorious difficulty, Beckett famously refused to offer his readers any help in interpreting...