Win/Loss.
- Author / Editor
- Pugh, Tison.
Win/Loss.
- Published
- Chaucer’s Losers, Nintendo’s Children, and Other Forays in Queer Ludonarratology (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019), pp. 71-98.
- Description
- Approaches the tale-telling contest of CT as its "ludonarrative framework" and analyzes its "gaming elements," arguing that--complicating the win/loss binary--the work queers victory, depicts the "abundant pleasures of defeat," and reformulates "the meaning of gender and masculinity in narrative games of erotic one-upmanship." Treats the fabliaux as the most game-like of the tales, and assesses inconclusiveness, unknowability, and open-endedness as challenges to the "telos of ludonarrativity."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer’s Losers, Nintendo’s Children, and Other Forays in Queer Ludonarratology
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General