Creative Accounting

Role-playing games have many qualities of narrative (character, plot, setting), yet they have received virtually no attention from narratologists. This essay discusses the way that role-playing games construct narrative worlds and compares that to recent theories of fiction based on possible-world models. In both, emphasis is placed on the objects that make up this world. In role-playing games and recent theories of fictional world, this essay argues, emphasis on objects makes possible intertextual comparisons, which in turn help to define and rejuvenate the agency of readers and critics against the backdrop of challenges to that agency by market culture and structuralist literary theory

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Fictional universe · Literature · Narrative · Possible world · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism

• Productive Violence and Poststructural Play in the Dungeons and Dragons Narrative

  Open Access•Nathan Shank•The Journal of Popular Culture•2015

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• Virtual Total Control

  Open Access•Kristine Levan, Steven Downing et al.•Games and Culture•2019

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• Fictional objects

  Open Access•Robert Howell, Robert J Howell•Poetics•1979

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• The semantical structure of fictional discourse

  Open Access•Richard Routley•Poetics•1979

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• Extensional and intensional narrative worlds

  Open Access•Lubomir Dolezel•Poetics•1979

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• Individuals in Narrative Worlds

  Uri Margolin•Poetics Today•1990

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