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Jahshan, Paul. Cybermapping and the Writing of Myth. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2006.

Juul, Jesper. Half-real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005.

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Nassiri, Nasser and Norman Powell, David Moore. ?Avatar gender and personal space invasion anxiety level in desktop collaborative virtual environments,? Virtual Reality, Volume 8 , Issue 2 (September 2004).

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Reinhardt , Tobias ."Readers in the underworld: Lucretius, De rerum natura 3.912-1075." The Journal of Roman Studies 94 (January 1, 2004): 27-46.

Ryan, Marie-Laure. Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

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Schumacher, Thomas L.. Terragni's Danteum : Architecture, Poetics, and Politics under Italian Fascism. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997.

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Smith, Evans Lansing. The descent to the underworld in literature, painting, and film, 1895-1950: the Modernist Nekyia. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.

Smith, Evans Lansing. The Hero Journey in Literature: Parables of Poesis. Lanham: University Press of America, 1997.

Smith, Evans Lansing. ?Myths of Poesis, Hermeneusis, and Psychogenesis: Hoffmann, Tagore, and Gilman.? Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 34, (1997).

Smith, Jonathan Z.. Map is not Territory: Studies in the History of Religions. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1993.

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Teiser, Stephen F., ??Having Once Died and Returned to Life?: Representations of Hell in Medieval China,? Journal of Asiatic Studies 48, no. 2 (1988): 435?37.

Turner , Alice K.. The History of Hell. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1995.

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Wertheim , Margaret. The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: a History of Space from Dante to the Internet. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000.

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Zaleski, Carol. Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

 

 

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