2024

Our pilot players assemble to attempt the ultimate literary game: the novel.

Play literary games from the salons of the 17^th century and find out whether the games that sparked the creativity of early novelists will do the same for you.

JEUX Principal Investigator Karin Kukkonen will present on Games, Play and the Novel: Playing “Le Jeu du Roman” (1701) at the ESCL Conference held at the Sorbonne next week.

And there we were, in all our humanity, sharing dreams that we had never before told anyone.

In June we had a test run for the Game of the Messenger.

On a sunny spring afternoon, we gathered for a game.

JEUX Principal Investigator Karin Kukkonen will present on "Literary Games, Poetics and Storyworlds of the Early-Modern Novel” on 30 May 2024.

Three doctoral research fellowships are available at JEUX. Candidates will investigate literary games in the early-modern period, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between literary games and the developing genre of the novel.

JEUX Principal Investigator Karin Kukkonen will present "Playing Narration: The Game of the Novel in Early- Modern France” at the 2024 annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative that takes place in Newcastle University in April.