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1. 1. The Expanding Storyworld : An Intermedial Study of the Mass Effect novels

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Jessika Sundin; [2018]
   Keywords : Drew Karpyshyn; William C. Dietz; Mass Effect; BioWare; storyworld; video games; digital games; intermediality; transmediality; narratology; semiotics; multimodality; media modality;

   Abstract : This study investigates the previously neglected literary phenomenon of game novels, a genre that is part of the increasing significance that games are having in culture. Intermedial studies is one of the principal fields that examines these types of phenomena, which provides perspectives for understanding the interactions between media. READ MORE

3. 2. A Conflict of Interests : Aspects of Morality in Drew Karpyshyn's Mass Effect-trilogy

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Olof Persson; [2011]
   Keywords : Retribution; philosophy; principle of equal interest; morality; Peter Singer; Drew Karpyshyn; Mass Effect; Ascension; Revelation; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This essay analyzes several characters, events and dilemmas in Drew Karpyshyn's Mass Effect-trilogy using the moral philosophical theory called 'the principle of equal interests', a theory developed by Australian philosohper Peter Singer. The aim of these analyses is to demonstrate that the novels are written in such a way that the dilemmas presented are morally ambigious, and as such the reader of the novels will have to decide for him- or herself which side of a particular argument they want to side with. READ MORE