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Mythopoeic Narrative in The Legend of Zelda

By Anthony G. Cirilla , Vincent E. Rone

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
ISBN
9780367437985, 9781003005872
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2094713 bytes)
Series
Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature 115
Pages
\253
Time added
2021-08-22 01:33:07

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The Legend of Zelda series is one of the most popular and recognizable examples in videogames of what Tolkien referred to as mythopoeia, or myth-making. In his essay On Fairy Stories and a short poem entitled Mythopoeia, Tolkien makes the case that the fairy tale aesthetic is simply a more intimate version of the same principle underlying the great myths: the human desire to make meaning out of the world. By using mythopoeia as a touchstone concept, the essays in this volume explore how The Legend of Zelda series turns the avatar, through which the player interacts with the in-game world, into a player-character symbiote wherein the individual both enacts and observes the process of integrating worldbuilding with storytelling. Twelve essays explore Zelda’s mythmaking from the standpoints of literary criticism, videogame theory, musicology, ecocriticism, pedagogy, and more. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Zelda, Mythopoeia, and the Importance of Developing an “Inside” Perspective on Videogames Foundations: Mythmakers and Myth-Players 1 Digital Mythopoeia: Exploring Modern Myth-Making in The Legend of Zelda 2 Extrapolative Silence in Mythopoeic Spectacle, or, Why Does Link Look So Bored? 3 Curiositas and Critical Glitches: Speedrunning The Legend of Zelda The Legend of Zelda: Entrance into Mythopoeic Structure 4 The Hero of Faёrie: The Triforce and Transformational Play in Link’s Mythopoeic Journey 5 Twilight and Faërie: The Music of Twilight Princess as   Tolkienesque Nostalgia 6 The Domestic Champion in The Wind Waker There’s Something Mything Here: Problems of Counter-Structure or Contra-Structure in Zelda’s Mythopoeic Methods 7 “You Played the Ocarina Again, Didn’t You!!”: Catastrophe and the Aesthetics of Evil in Ocarina of Time 8 A Link Across Adventures: Literacy’s Relevance to Time in The Legend of Zelda Series’ Mythopoeia 9 Haunted by Heroes: Mythology and Hauntology: Majora’s Mask The Legend of Pedagogy: Theory and Practice 10 The Hero of Time: The Legend of Zelda as Children’s Literature 11 Take Away the Sword: Teaching for Creativity and Communication with The Legend of Zelda in Art History 12 Regenerative Play and the Experience of the Sublime: Breath of the Wild Bibliography Index

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