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Video Game Adaptations of Literary Works in the Hayden Library<br>
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The Hayden Library is hosting an interactive exhibition starting on <br>
September 7th. Visitors to the second floor Humanities Library will be <br>
able to play a selection of videogames adapting literary works from <br>
Shakespeare to Douglas Adams. The exhibit explores the range of approaches <br>
taken to create video games of literary works, The result is often <br>
whimsical, turning the worlds of these stories into spaces to be explored, <br>
often transforming them according video game conventions.<br>
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The games featured in the exhibit invite players to become Nick Carraway, <br>
the narrator of The Great Gatsby, dodging drunken partygoers in his way to <br>
meet Gatsby; explore the world of Shakespeare’s plays; carry out an <br>
exercise of introspection based on Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus; or <br>
revisit the events of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.<br>
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Games by the Book, curated by Clara Fernández-Vara and Nick Montfort, will <br>
be open to the public until October 8th, in the Humanities library, on the <br>
2nd floor of the Hayden Library. More details can be found at:<br>
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<a href="http://trope-tank.mit.edu/games_by_the_book/" target="_blank">http://trope-tank.mit.edu/games_by_the_book/</a><br>
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The exhibit is sponsored by the De Florez Fund for Humor, the MIT Council <br>
of the Arts, the MIT Game Lab, and the Electronic Literature Organization <br>
and Comparative Media Studies.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Michelle Baildon<br>
Philosophy, History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, & Society Librarian<br>
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Hayden Library: 14S-230 / Dewey Library: E53-168N <br>
77 Massachusetts Ave.<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
Tel. 617-253-9352<br>
Fax 617-253-2464</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
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