UC Irvine

“Tongues in Trees and Sermons in Stones: The Landscape of Affordances” deals with the phenomenology of intentionality and phenomenal upheavals in Early Modern English drama. The dissertation is primarily concerned with investigating the conditions of possibility for experiencing affordative structures, and with the internal and external costs involved when those structures are revised. The dissertation includes the design, programming, construction and analysis of a King Lear-based arcade game.