Book review: Literature, Videogames and Learning by Andrew Burn

Rob Gallagher

doi:10.7557/23.7286

Authors

Rob Gallagher King's College London https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2096-3889

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/23.7286

Keywords:

literature, education, adaptation, design, narrative, book review

Abstract

A review of Andrew Burn’s book Literature, Videogames and Learning. Published in 2022 by Routledge. ISBN: 9781032024523, pp. 232.

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