„The Last Door” w kontekście twórczości Edgara Allana Poego
"The Last Door" in the context of the works of Edgar Allan Poe

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to read the game "The Last Door" in relation to the works of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The author of the text tries not only to identify specific intertextual references, but also to answer questions about their function. The literary allusions that can be found in "The Last Door" differ significantly in terms of the degree of their concealment – and thus demand from the player varying degrees of reading competence. Besides indicating the function of intertextual relationships, the analysis also enables us to explore the mechanisms used to build a mood of terror, and the relevance today of the techniques developed by Poe in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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