Mirror World, Minus World.

This article considers different experiences available to the reader of Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire by exploring the novel through concepts familiar from videogaming, such as the warp, the glitch, and the Let's Play, developing particular parallels with the Nintendo game Super Mario Bros. All of th...

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Published in:Textual Cultures: Text, Contexts, Interpretation (Indiana University Press) Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 101 - 117
Main Author: Ferguson, Andrew
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Published: Indiana University Press Spring2013
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