Marco Caracciolo

On Soulsring Worlds

Narrative Complexity, Digital Communities, and Interpretation in Dark Souls and Elden Ring

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first book-length study devoted to FromSoftware games, On Soulsring Worlds explores how the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring are able to reconcile extreme difficulty in both gameplay and narrative with broad appeal.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Advances in Game Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 172g
• ISBN-13: 9781032684017
• ISBN-10: 1032684011
• Artikelnr.: 74064856

Autorenporträt

Marco Caracciolo is Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium. Drawing inspiration from cognitive science, the philosophy of mind, and the environmental humanities, his work explores the forms of experience afforded by narrative in literary fiction and video games. He is the author of several books, including most recently Contemporary Narrative and the Spectrum of Materiality (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Complicating the Flow of Time
2. Game Space: Layers and Gaps
3. Reimagining Humanity as Multiplicity
4. Community: Asynchronous Multiplayer and Shared Difficulty
5. Levels of Interpretation in Online Discussion
6. Soul and Swamp: Ethics of Soulsring Gameplay
Works Cited

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Introduction

1. Complicating the Flow of Time

2. Game Space: Layers and Gaps

3. Reimagining Humanity as Multiplicity

4. Community: Asynchronous Multiplayer and Shared Difficulty

5. Levels of Interpretation in Online Discussion

6. Soul and Swamp: Ethics of Soulsring Gameplay

Works Cited

Rezensionen

"If Dark Souls and Elden Ring deliver us ludic incomprehension, then Caracciolo delivers his customary analytical clarity. The book's replay value promises to attract both gamers and academics, keeping all of our intellectual health bars high."

David Ciccoricco, author of Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media and Reading Network Fiction

"If Dark Souls and Elden Ring deliver us ludic incomprehension, then Caracciolo delivers his customary analytical clarity. The book's replay value promises to attract both gamers and academics, keeping all of our intellectual health bars high."

David Ciccoricco, author of Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media and Reading Network Fiction