Arachne v. Minerva: The Spinning out of long narrative in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and World of Warcraft

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Comparative analyses of narrative have rarely focused on popular forms such as videogames and television, and still less so than on the relatively new genre of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing game. This book chapter seeks to redress this omission by appraising and evaluating the different devices used in the construction and sustainment of long narrative in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft. There has been no other work in the area of comparing MMORPG narrative formation with other media . The chapter stages its comparative analysis through the lens of a Classical reference: the competition to make the best narrative tapestry between mortal woman Arachne and the goddess Minerva. This lens connects these screen-based texts to earlier modes of constructing long narrative, yet it also provides a means of investigating the way that the characteristics of a particular medium provide differen

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