Mythopoeic Narrative in The Legend of Zelda

ISBN-13: 9781032238517 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 252 str.

Anthony Cirilla; Vincent Rone

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The Legend of Zelda series is one of the most popular and recognizable examples in videogames of what Tolkien referred to as mythopoeia, or myth-making. The essays in this volume explore how The Legend of Zelda series puts players in touch with videogames’ myth-making power.

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Introduction: Zelda, Mythopoeia, and the Importance of Developing an "Inside" Perspective on Videogames

Anthony G. Cirilla

 

Foundations: Mythmakers and Myth-Players

Chapter 1. Digital Mythopoeia: Exploring modern myth-making in The Legend of Zelda
Alicia Fox-Lenz

Chapter 2. Extrapolative Silence in Mythopoeic Spectacle, or, Why does Link Look so Bored?

Thomas Rowland

Chapter 3 Curiositas and Critical Glitches: Speedrunning The Legend of Zelda

Ethan Smilie

 

The Legend of Zelda: Entrance into Mythopoeic Structure

Chapter 4. The Hero of Fa¿rie: The Triforce and Transformational Play in Link’s Mythopoeic Journey

Anthony G. Cirilla

Chapter 5. Twilight and Faërie: The Music of Twilight Princess as Tolkienesque Nostalgia

Vincent E. Rone

Chapter 6. The Domestic Champion in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

Michael David Elam

There’s Something Mything Here: Problems of Counter-Structure or Contra-Structure in Zelda’s Mythopoeic Methods

Chapter 7. "You Played the Ocarina Again, Didn’t You!!": Catastrophe and the Aesthetics of Evil in Ocarina of Time

Nathan Schmidt

Chapter 8. A Link Across Adventures: Literacy’s Relevance to Time in The Legend of Zelda Series’ Mythopoeia

Matthew Sautman

Chapter 9. Haunted by Heroes: Mythology & Hauntology in The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
Damian Asling

The Legend of Pedagogy: Theory and Practice

Chapter 10. The Hero of Time: The Legend of Zelda as Children’s Literature

Chamutal Noimann & Elliot H. Serkin

Chapter 11. Take Away the Sword: Teaching for Creativity and Communication with the Legend of Zelda in Art History

David Boffa

Chapter 12. Regenerative Play and the Experience of the Sublime in The Legend of Zelda:Breath of the Wild

Gerald Farca

Alexander Lehner

Victor Navarro-Remesal

O autorze

Anthony G. Cirilla is Assistant Professor of English Literature at College of the Ozarks and associate editor of Carmina Philosophiae, the Journal of the International Boethius Society. He received his PhD in English literature from Saint Louis University and has published and presented extensively in both Boethius and videogame studies.

Vincent E. Rone (PhD, 2014, UC Santa Barbara) writes, composes, teaches, and performs. He specializes in sacred-music reforms of Catholic France and the music of fantasy, notably The Lord of the Rings and The Legend of Zelda franchises. He currently is co-editing an anthology, Nostalgia and Videogame Music.