The State at Play: Iain M. Banks’s Gaming Galactic Empires

This article sets out to explore the dynamics of play in three selected science-fiction novels by the contemporary Scottish author Iain M. Banks. Drawing on the typology of literary play designed by the German theoretician Wolfgang Iser, the article focuses particularly on Banks’s second novel from...

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Main Author: Mirka Horová
Format: Article
Language:ces
Published: Karolinum Press 2023-03-01
Series:Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica
Online Access:http://www.karolinum.cz/doi/10.14712/24646830.2022.40