I have to admit, this one’s a little ridiculous, even for us. Ghostlightning, lelangir, Cuchlann, and I all somehow ended up in a chat a scant few hours ago. Initially, the topic was Kannagi, but, when matters of disparate theory arose, things got a little crazy. The title is apt; in fact, what you’ll see after the break is no less than 11,001 words of our discourse and debate. Is it worth reading? Absolutely.
It’s a good thing the concept of tl;dr doesn’t exist on Super Fanicom.
I keep forgetting Agrias is a dude.
I know it’s been a while since I posted — and even longer since I posted anything worth a damn. Sorry about that. I finished the draft of my project for History of the English Language, and and about to get going on my paper for Gothic novel. Why should this excite you? My paper is on the use of the Gothic in survival horror games. I found a few articles about Silent Hill, and I’m playing SH2 specifically for the paper. But I’m not going to talk about that specifically right now. Instead, I mean to work out a little of the theory on video games I’ll be using — I’m applying phenomenology to video games.
This isn’t really about literary criticism, something I’m not really literate in anyway. But I’m going to share my thoughts on the origin of the text and its context, as Chuchlann enjoys how Frye “strips away the historical and political meanings from texts.”