{"product_id":"video-games-literature-and-close-playing-a-practical-guide-9781032468822","title":"Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVideo Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide\u003c\/i\u003e offers twenty-four case studies of mainstream and independent video games in order to introduce key video game and literary studies concepts, ideas, definitions, and possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdmond Y. Chang \u003c\/strong\u003eis Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. He has published on queer games, digital humanities, popular culture, and speculative literature of color including \"Queergaming\" in \u003cem\u003eQueer Game Studies\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), \"Why Are the Digital Humanities So Straight?\" in \u003cem\u003eAlternative Historiographies of the Digital Humanities\u003c\/em\u003e (2021), and \"Gaming While Asian\" in Made in Asia\/America (2024). He is an editor for \u003ci\u003eAnalog Game Studies \u003c\/i\u003eand a contributing editor for \u003ci\u003eGamers with Glasses\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTimothy J. Welsh \u003c\/strong\u003eis Associate Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMixed Realism: Videogames and the Violence of Fiction \u003c\/i\u003e(University of Minnesota Press, 2016) as well as articles on video games, interactive narrative, and digital society such as \"(Re)Mastering \u003ci\u003eDark Souls\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\u003ci\u003eGame Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, 2021) and \"Doing Nothing in San Andreas: Contesting the Value of Play in Rockstar's \u003ci\u003eGrand Theft Auto V\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\u003ci\u003eConfigurations\u003c\/i\u003e, 2024). He is managing editor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Games Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52033948025106,"sku":"9781032468822","price":57.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6c16a330-7895-4013-a3e1-3d282a35fdc2.jpg?v=1770980893","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/video-games-literature-and-close-playing-a-practical-guide-9781032468822","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}