Auctor Ludens: Essays on Play in LiteratureGerald Guinness, Andrew Hurley This is a book about play practice rather than play theory. Of course, practice presupposes theory, but here the editors choose to keep general theoretical assumptions under cover rather then force them into explicitness. The contributors to this volume were given free rein to discuss whatsoever aspect of literary play caught their fancy. The absence of a predetermined theoretical framework has resulted in an idiosyntractic volume on the different forms of play. |
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... Barth I find Leavis' use of the phrase un jeu de quilles rising unbidden to my lips. Their playfulness isn't the playfulness of a political exile asserting the autonomy of his art, or of Dickens exulting in his creative exuberance, or ...
... Barth I find Leavis' use of the phrase un jeu de quilles rising unbidden to my lips. Their playfulness isn't the playfulness of a political exile asserting the autonomy of his art, or of Dickens exulting in his creative exuberance, or ...
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... Barth, and have taken Scheherazade for my double muse, the Muse of Entertainment Literary and Sexual. For she told stories to save her life, a life worth nothing once her virginity was shattered, and so she had to make love for all she ...
... Barth, and have taken Scheherazade for my double muse, the Muse of Entertainment Literary and Sexual. For she told stories to save her life, a life worth nothing once her virginity was shattered, and so she had to make love for all she ...
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... Barth and the myriad other tellers, to examine not so much the standard ways as some very curious ones that have been used to seduce us hearers, or readers. I am assuming that we, like baby bears, must be licked into shape, must in a ...
... Barth and the myriad other tellers, to examine not so much the standard ways as some very curious ones that have been used to seduce us hearers, or readers. I am assuming that we, like baby bears, must be licked into shape, must in a ...
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... Barth's little fiction are so obstreperous themselves that they wake us up to the fact that we are out here reading them—a subtle "Hey, you!" And in "Frame-Tale" Barth gives us a fiction which says only "Cut on dotted line. Twist end ...
... Barth's little fiction are so obstreperous themselves that they wake us up to the fact that we are out here reading them—a subtle "Hey, you!" And in "Frame-Tale" Barth gives us a fiction which says only "Cut on dotted line. Twist end ...
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... Barth's case it is the words "Cut, twist, fasten" that induce our active participation in the (as it were) swoon. The fiction won't work unless you cooperate, allow yourself to be used, like the member of the audience for the magician ...
... Barth's case it is the words "Cut, twist, fasten" that induce our active participation in the (as it were) swoon. The fiction won't work unless you cooperate, allow yourself to be used, like the member of the audience for the magician ...
Contents
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Playing with Authorship | 63 |
InterLude | 91 |
PlayTranslations | 91 |
Literature as Game of Pleasure | 99 |
Literature and RolePlaying | 137 |
Literature as Existential Play | 171 |
PostLude | 191 |
LIST OF WORKS CITED | 195 |
NOTE ON CONTRIBUTORS | 199 |
INDEX | 200 |
The Games of Literature | 99 |
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