The Legend of Zelda and philosophy : I link therefore I am /
edited by Luke Cuddy.
- Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c2009.
- xviii, 263 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 36 .
- Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 36. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting up the game / Luke Cuddy -- Level 1: Emotion, experience, and thought -- Why do we care whether link saves the princess? / Jonathan Frome -- Look before you warp / Douglas Wilson -- Legend and logic : critical thinking in the gaming and real worlds / Robert Arp and Dennis Milarker -- Level 2: Dodongo and death -- Link's search for meaning / Toni Fellela -- The hero with a thousand hearts : death in Zelda / Anna B. Janssen -- Level 3: Don't get manhandled by manhandla-or ... mind-handled? -- Slave morality and master swords : Ludus and Paidia in Zelda / Kristina Drzaic and Peter Rauch -- Shape shifting and time traveling : link's identity issues / Rachel Robison -- Level 4: The CDI games don't count! : timelines and Miyamoto -- The hero of timelines / Sean C. Duncan and James Paul Gee -- Linking to the past : Zelda is a communication game / Carl Matthew Johnson -- Level 5: Time and space in hyrule -- Three days in termina : Zelda and temporality / Lee Sherlock -- Constructing nespace in Zelda / Joaquin Siabra-Fraile -- Level 6: Treasures of the hyrulopolis -- Zelda as art / Luke Cuddy -- Hyrule's green and pleasant land : the minish cap as utopian ideal / Paul Brown -- Level 7: You are nearing the end of your quest ... grumble, grumble -- I am link's transcendental will : freedom from hyrule to earth / Dario S. Compagno -- Zeldathustra / Michael Bruce -- Level 8: The triforce-need I say more? -- A link to the triforce : Miyamoto, Lacan, and you / Patrick Dugan -- The triforce and the doctrine of the mean / Charles Joshua Horn -- Level 9: Don't patra-nize me! -- How can there be evil in hyrule? / Dwayne Collins -- The legend of feminism / Joyce C. Havstad and Iris M. Jahng -- It's a secret to everybody -- Getting to know the world next door / Roger Ngim.
"Chapters address philosophical aspects of the video game The Legend of Zelda and video game culture in general"--Provided by publisher.
9780812696547 (trade paper : alk. paper) 0812696549 (trade paper : alk. paper)
2008038443
Legend of Zelda (Game)
Video games--Philosophy.
GV1469.35.L43 / L45 2009
793.93/2
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting up the game / Luke Cuddy -- Level 1: Emotion, experience, and thought -- Why do we care whether link saves the princess? / Jonathan Frome -- Look before you warp / Douglas Wilson -- Legend and logic : critical thinking in the gaming and real worlds / Robert Arp and Dennis Milarker -- Level 2: Dodongo and death -- Link's search for meaning / Toni Fellela -- The hero with a thousand hearts : death in Zelda / Anna B. Janssen -- Level 3: Don't get manhandled by manhandla-or ... mind-handled? -- Slave morality and master swords : Ludus and Paidia in Zelda / Kristina Drzaic and Peter Rauch -- Shape shifting and time traveling : link's identity issues / Rachel Robison -- Level 4: The CDI games don't count! : timelines and Miyamoto -- The hero of timelines / Sean C. Duncan and James Paul Gee -- Linking to the past : Zelda is a communication game / Carl Matthew Johnson -- Level 5: Time and space in hyrule -- Three days in termina : Zelda and temporality / Lee Sherlock -- Constructing nespace in Zelda / Joaquin Siabra-Fraile -- Level 6: Treasures of the hyrulopolis -- Zelda as art / Luke Cuddy -- Hyrule's green and pleasant land : the minish cap as utopian ideal / Paul Brown -- Level 7: You are nearing the end of your quest ... grumble, grumble -- I am link's transcendental will : freedom from hyrule to earth / Dario S. Compagno -- Zeldathustra / Michael Bruce -- Level 8: The triforce-need I say more? -- A link to the triforce : Miyamoto, Lacan, and you / Patrick Dugan -- The triforce and the doctrine of the mean / Charles Joshua Horn -- Level 9: Don't patra-nize me! -- How can there be evil in hyrule? / Dwayne Collins -- The legend of feminism / Joyce C. Havstad and Iris M. Jahng -- It's a secret to everybody -- Getting to know the world next door / Roger Ngim.
"Chapters address philosophical aspects of the video game The Legend of Zelda and video game culture in general"--Provided by publisher.
9780812696547 (trade paper : alk. paper) 0812696549 (trade paper : alk. paper)
2008038443
Legend of Zelda (Game)
Video games--Philosophy.
GV1469.35.L43 / L45 2009
793.93/2