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Jon Garrad deposited Bleeding Genre Dry: archetypes, stereotypes, and White Wolf’s Vampire games in the group
Gothicists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoRoleplaying games have always leaned heavily on their literary sources. System mechanics and character creation options have been tooled toward evoking genre types and aesthetics ever since the first “Vancian wizard” memorised a spell before setting out to adventure.
Naturally, when RPGs turned toward the Gothic, they did the same thing: rif…[Read more]
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Jon Garrad's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
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Jon Garrad deposited Bleeding Genre Dry: archetypes, stereotypes, and White Wolf’s Vampire games on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
Roleplaying games have always leaned heavily on their literary sources. System mechanics and character creation options have been tooled toward evoking genre types and aesthetics ever since the first “Vancian wizard” memorised a spell before setting out to adventure.
Naturally, when RPGs turned toward the Gothic, they did the same thing: rif…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: Disrupting the Canon: High Culture, Low Brow, and the Space In Between in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months ago<p style=”text-align: left;”>Stony Brook University
31st Annual English Graduate Conference
March 1st, 2019</p>
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Disrupting the Canon: High Culture, Low Brow, and the Space In Between</p>
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Keynote Speaker
Dr. Jonathan W. Gray
John Jay College of Criminal Justice</p>What is the difference…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic HC Platypus Blog in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoGreat, thanks! I’ll email you shortly.
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic HC Platypus Blog in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHello all,
For those of you experiencing the start of the fall semester, I hope it’s going well!
I wanted to reach out to see if anyone would be interested in being the focus of an upcoming HC Team blog post. I would love to interview someone who participated in the HC Summer Camp about the site they created as part of the camp’s challenges. Is…[Read more]
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jharris's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
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Jon Garrad's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
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Jon Garrad deposited Creature, Monster, Nameless, Created: Frankenstein transformed in role playing games in the group
Gothicists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis paper explores the transmission of Frankenstein’s Creature – or Monster – into tabletop and computer gaming. It briefly covers the ‘Flesh Golem’ archetype and Frankenstein-esque figures as encounters in Dungeons and Dragons – superficial imitations, influenced more by cinematic adaptations than the novel, and emphasising the ‘Monster’ readi…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic CFP: American Ecogothic at NeMLA in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoLeslie Fiedler describes American fiction as “bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction… a literature of darkness and the grotesque in a land of light and affirmation” (Love and Death in the American Novel, 29). However, for settlers within the early colonies and citizens of the young republic, the wilderness of the supposed New World…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Mini Challenge #6: Survey in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoHello, everyone!
The HC team and I would love some feedback from you regarding the HC Summer Camp. In fact, we’re raffling off two HC platypuses. To enter to win this coveted prize, you simply need to respond to the “Reflect and Plan” questions in our previous discussion thread and/or complete the (5-10 min) survey. Participating in both will…[Read more]
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Jon Garrad deposited Creature, Monster, Nameless, Created: Frankenstein transformed in role playing games on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago
This paper explores the transmission of Frankenstein’s Creature – or Monster – into tabletop and computer gaming. It briefly covers the ‘Flesh Golem’ archetype and Frankenstein-esque figures as encounters in Dungeons and Dragons – superficial imitations, influenced more by cinematic adaptations than the novel, and emphasising the ‘Monster’ readi…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy deposited Cartography of the Imperial Mind: The Dangerous Forms and Reforms of Dracula in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe late Victorian era was imbued with progressive scientific reform and palpable anxiety regarding the future of the British empire. These two topics may seem distinct, but they find mutual expression in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, in which the soulless Count travels from Transylvania (literally, “beyond the forest”) and invades Engla…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy deposited Cartography of the Imperial Mind: The Dangerous Forms and Reforms of Dracula in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe late Victorian era was imbued with progressive scientific reform and palpable anxiety regarding the future of the British empire. These two topics may seem distinct, but they find mutual expression in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, in which the soulless Count travels from Transylvania (literally, “beyond the forest”) and invades Engla…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy deposited Cartography of the Imperial Mind: The Dangerous Forms and Reforms of Dracula in the group
Horror on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe late Victorian era was imbued with progressive scientific reform and palpable anxiety regarding the future of the British empire. These two topics may seem distinct, but they find mutual expression in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, in which the soulless Count travels from Transylvania (literally, “beyond the forest”) and invades Engla…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy deposited Cartography of the Imperial Mind: The Dangerous Forms and Reforms of Dracula in the group
Gothicists on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe late Victorian era was imbued with progressive scientific reform and palpable anxiety regarding the future of the British empire. These two topics may seem distinct, but they find mutual expression in Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, in which the soulless Count travels from Transylvania (literally, “beyond the forest”) and invades Engla…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Challenge #6: Reflect and Plan (8/6-8/19) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoHello, campers!
It’s the time we all knew would come eventually: the end of summer camp. I can’t believe it myself, but we’ve arrived at the final challenge, which is centered around reflecting and planning. I hope that you use this time to make sure that you don’t loose track of all of the wonderful work you’ve done over the summer.
To complete…[Read more]
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