Bøger af Lorenzo DiTommaso

The video-game is among the most prominent media of the explosion of apocalyptic popular culture in the twenty-first century. Apocalyptic video games are a global phenomenon, international in their scope and democratic in their appeal. This book will be the first volume dedicated to the subject of apocalyptic video games. Its two dozen invited contributions address the subject comprehensively, from game design to player experience, and from the perspective of content, theme, sound, ludic textures, and social function. The volume offers scholars, students, and general readers a thorough discussion of one of the most fascinating illustrations of "apocalyptic" in the popular imagination and novel insights into an important facet of contemporary digital culture. Special Feature: The volume concludes with a curated Q&A with game designers on the concept and construction of "apocalyptic" game worlds.

Written by an international group of expert scholars, the essays in this volume are devoted to the topic of biblical apocrypha, particularly the "Old Testament Pseudepigrapha," within the compass of the Slavonic tradition. The authors examine ancient texts, such as 2 Enoch and the Apocalypse of Abraham, which have been preserved (sometimes uniquely) in Slavonic witnesses and versions, as well as apocryphal literature that was composed within the rich Slavonic tradition from the early Byzantine period onwards. The volume's focus is textual, historical, and literary. Many of its contributions present editions and commentaries of important texts, or discuss aspects pertaining to the manuscript evidence.With contributions by:F.I. Andersen, Christfried Böttrich, James H. Charlesworth, Florentina Badalanova Geller, I.M. Gritsevskaya, Tomislav Jovanovic, Alexander Kulik, Basil Lourié, Anissava Miltenova, Liudmila Navtanovich, Andrei Orlov, Aurelio de Santos Otero, Michael Pesenson, Nicolae Roddy, Cornelia Soldat, Marina Swoboda, Lorenzo DiTommaso, Evgenij G. Vodolazkin