The Very Brink of Destruction: The Sublime in Dark Souls

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<a href="https://doi.org/10.17846/aa-2025-17-1-54-77" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.17846/aa-2025-17-1-54-77</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17846/aa-2025-17-1-54-77" target="_blank" >10.17846/aa-2025-17-1-54-77</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Very Brink of Destruction: The Sublime in Dark Souls
Original language description
This paper focuses on the aesthetic category of the sublime as observed in the 2011 videogame Dark Souls. In my view, the sublime in Dark Souls is predicated on the player’s knowledge of the game’s mechanics and the game’s tendency to challenge and subvert this knowledge, either by presenting new challenges, or by modifying the nature of the game-world and the game mechanics contained therein. In my discussion of the sublime, I rely on the work of Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, and Philip Shaw. In my discussions of videogames, I work with the theories of Espen Aarseth, Jesper Juul, Gonzalo Frasca, Greg Lastowka, and Markku Eskelinen.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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