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Seeing Into The City Of Glass: An Analysis Of The Postmodern Worldview As Displayed By Postmodern Detective Fiction, Katelyn Niehaus
Seeing Into The City Of Glass: An Analysis Of The Postmodern Worldview As Displayed By Postmodern Detective Fiction, Katelyn Niehaus
WRIT: Journal of First-Year Writing
This article looks at postmodern detective fiction, particularly City of Glass by Paul Auster, and analyzes how this genre reveals implications of various aspects of the postmodern worldview. Predominantly, it looks at the aspects of pluralism and creating reality and how postmodern detective fiction portrays numerous implications of these aspects.
Dynamic Difficulty: A Player Perspective, Maggie Hergenrather
Dynamic Difficulty: A Player Perspective, Maggie Hergenrather
WRIT: Journal of First-Year Writing
Video games are a major source of entertainment and is starting to be studied in detail. However, video games very so widely throughout the industry that it is difficult to see what makes games more popular. One of the most important aspects of video games is difficulty and it can drastically change the response the game gets. Through reading previous studies conducted on difficulty in video games a research question was formed: What do video game players want in games in terms of difficulty? A survey was created and conducted to peer into the preferences of gamers and their reasons …
Nancy Drew: A Feminist Icon Or A Problematic Figure Of The Patriarchy And White Privilege, Elizabeth J. Farren
Nancy Drew: A Feminist Icon Or A Problematic Figure Of The Patriarchy And White Privilege, Elizabeth J. Farren
WRIT: Journal of First-Year Writing
In the detective fiction genre, Nancy Drew is one of its most iconic sleuths, and is so cleverly named the “girl detective.” Originally created in 1930, Nancy Drew serves as an inspirational figure for young girls and women across generations, as her intelligence and resourcefulness allowed her to challenge traditional gender roles for women as well as solve complicated mysteries. With the rise of the women’s rights movement and in the 1960s, many aspired to attain Nancy Drew’s independence and subvert the patriarchy, breaking the glass ceiling that held them down in the role of the submissive housewife. The second …