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A Different Kind of Monster

2016; IGI Global; Linguagem: Inglês

10.4018/978-1-5225-0477-1.ch003

2327-9303

Michael Fuchs,

Themes in Literature Analysis

In many respects, Alan Wake reminds of a typical postmodernist text: it draws on various sources, integrates other texts into its textual body, and is highly self-conscious both about its construction and the recipient's role in generating meaning. However, Alan Wake is not a postmodernist novel, but a video game. This chapter explores the ways in which this video game incorporates other cultural artifacts and argues that its cannibalistic incorporation of other media transforms Alan Wake's textual body into the game text's true, Gothic monster.