The Game Poetics of the Novel The Death of Achilles by B. Akunin

DOI

10.2991/icpcs-19.2019.87How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Boris Akunin, ludology, game poetics, detective genre, allusion, intertextuality, theatricality, stylization

Abstract

The task of the research is to reveal the characteristic features of postmodern detective fictions, specifically of the works of B. Akunin. Methodologies such as formalist approach, semantic analysis of images and comparative studies are used in this article, which leads to the conclusions that the new detective fictions, unlike the classical ones, are much more free in choosing and interpreting historical material and that the writer’s strategies are to play with the reader and give him an active role in the unfolding of the text by using various literary devices. The article discusses the features of the game poetics of B. Akunin’s novel The Death of Achilles. The system-forming components of game poetics are distinguished: stylization, playful intertextuality, theatricality of reality, the effect of deceived expectation, game structure, manifested in the ambiguity of plot lines, and game narration. The analysis also shows how the writer organically combines game mechanics and historical elements in a special kind of detective genre, as well as how he implements the interactive principle to create a provocative text.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Tang Shi
AU  - Alexander Kovalenko
AU  - Nabieva Zukhra
PY  - 2019/05
DA  - 2019/05
TI  - The Game Poetics of the Novel The Death of Achilles by B. Akunin
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Pedagogy, Communication and Sociology (ICPCS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 392
EP  - 398
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icpcs-19.2019.87
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