“Reading” Pathologic 2: Russian Literature as a Trans-Medial Idea

IF 0.3 3区 文学 0 LITERATURE, SLAVIC
Matthew Kendall
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This article offers an analysis of a recent Russian computer game, Pathologic 2, which simulates an epidemic in a Russian provincial town. Unusually, the game has widely been called a “literary” experience by both its players and creators. By making use of theories of narration and mediation from Peter Brooks, Friedrich Kittler, and Patrick Jagoda, I ask whether the medium of the digital game can ever produce an experience that is related to or informed by the concept of “literariness” in both a Russian Formalist and broadly intellectual sense. By exploring how Pathologic 2 incorporates material from well-known texts by Fedor Dostoevskii and Aleksandr Blok, I argue that the digital game reduces Russian literature to a “trans-medial” phenomenon, and that this reduction can be understood as one impact of twenty-first-century networked computing on literary activity and institutions. Moreover, I consider the impact of contemporary geopolitics on how the global industry of digital games understands Russia and, by extension, Russian literature.

“阅读”病理学2:作为跨媒介观念的俄罗斯文学
这篇文章分析了最近俄罗斯的一款电脑游戏《病理2》,这款游戏模拟了俄罗斯一个省级城镇的流行病。不同寻常的是,这款游戏被玩家和创作者广泛地称为“文学”体验。通过使用Peter Brooks, Friedrich Kittler和Patrick jagagoda的叙述和调解理论,我想知道数字游戏媒介是否能够创造出一种与俄罗斯形式主义和广义理智意义上的“文学性”概念相关或受其影响的体验。通过探索《病理2》是如何将Fedor dostoevski和Aleksandr Blok的著名文本中的材料整合在一起的,我认为数字游戏将俄罗斯文学减少为一种“跨媒体”现象,这种减少可以被理解为21世纪网络计算对文学活动和制度的一种影响。此外,我还考虑了当代地缘政治对全球数字游戏产业如何理解俄罗斯以及俄罗斯文学的影响。
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RUSSIAN LITERATURE
RUSSIAN LITERATURE LITERATURE, SLAVIC-
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期刊介绍: Russian Literature combines issues devoted to special topics of Russian literature with contributions on related subjects in Croatian, Serbian, Czech, Slovak and Polish literatures. Moreover, several issues each year contain articles on heterogeneous subjects concerning Russian Literature. All methods and viewpoints are welcomed, provided they contribute something new, original or challenging to our understanding of Russian and other Slavic literatures. Russian Literature regularly publishes special issues devoted to: • the historical avant-garde in Russian literature and in the other Slavic literatures • the development of descriptive and theoretical poetics in Russian studies and in studies of other Slavic fields.
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