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Explorations Of Liminality And Intersectionality In Tabletop Games, Alyna Kim
Explorations Of Liminality And Intersectionality In Tabletop Games, Alyna Kim
Honors Thesis
In fantasy role-playing games (RPGs), especially tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs), participants are required to collaborate to create not only fantasy personas in the shape of characters, but also the world and space that makes up the game itself. Participants therefore create a sense of both time and space that exist outside of basic reality. The created space and time––referred to as a world or a story––exists as a liminal space that participants and characters use as a tool to both exist and explore. While the participants exist physically in the real world, the game space allows them to go beyond …
Exploring The Romantic Comedy: From The 90s To Today, Abigail Sherlock
Exploring The Romantic Comedy: From The 90s To Today, Abigail Sherlock
Honors Thesis
The genre of the romantic comedy has been around for as long as humans have been telling stories. Love, a uniquely human experience, is something we don’t fully understand, which can make for great storytelling fodder. The first popular romantic comedies were Shakespearian comedies, built around the idea of two people meeting and quickly running into a roadblock (or a number of roadblocks) that keeps them apart. This main idea, of following the story of two character’s relationship, has been a staple of storytelling for centuries. We have seen these tropes in Shakespeare, in novels from the likes of Jane …