The Bildung and the Gothic make and unmake each other in the videogame, where they engage in play with each other. The play of the Bildung and Gothic enriches both these modes and removes them from a sense of simplistic progress and its deployment as a device of objectification, respectively. This enables an understanding of the productive uses of these narrative modes in the videogame.
Manoj Jayakumar is a Lecturer at the School of Arts and Sciences, Sai University, India. He is also pursuing a PhD in English at University of Hyderabad. His PhD dissertation studies the relations of Videogame Adaptation and 19th-century Fiction.
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