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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... Brecht and the Scientific Spirit of Playfulness by Martin Esslin 2. Playing with the Canon Hagiographic (Dis)play: Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale," by Katharina Wilson 37 Playing with Fire and Brimstone: Auctor Ludens, Diabolus Ludicrus ...
... Brecht and the Scientific Spirit of Playfulness by Martin Esslin 2. Playing with the Canon Hagiographic (Dis)play: Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale," by Katharina Wilson 37 Playing with Fire and Brimstone: Auctor Ludens, Diabolus Ludicrus ...
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... H.P. Vincent (New York, 1962), p. 10. Further page references are in the text. 6John Barth, Chimera (New York, 1973), p. 147. BRECHT AND THE SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT OF PLAYFULNESS Martin Esslin For TO "MAKE" AN AUDIENCE 23 NOTES.
... H.P. Vincent (New York, 1962), p. 10. Further page references are in the text. 6John Barth, Chimera (New York, 1973), p. 147. BRECHT AND THE SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT OF PLAYFULNESS Martin Esslin For TO "MAKE" AN AUDIENCE 23 NOTES.
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Essays on Play in Literature Gerald Guinness, Andrew Hurley. BRECHT AND THE SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT OF PLAYFULNESS Martin Esslin For Brecht the theater was always an extremely serious matter. However much he rejected the German classics who ...
Essays on Play in Literature Gerald Guinness, Andrew Hurley. BRECHT AND THE SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT OF PLAYFULNESS Martin Esslin For Brecht the theater was always an extremely serious matter. However much he rejected the German classics who ...
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... Brecht's attempts to formulate a truly Marxist aesthetics of the theater. The acquisition of knowledge, the gaining of insights, the attainment of intellectual enlightenment, appeared to Brecht as the highest of pleasures: he depicted ...
... Brecht's attempts to formulate a truly Marxist aesthetics of the theater. The acquisition of knowledge, the gaining of insights, the attainment of intellectual enlightenment, appeared to Brecht as the highest of pleasures: he depicted ...
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... Brecht took the most uncompromising stand for an austere form of drama which he called Lehrstueck (learning play or didactic play). In Brecht's theoretical writings about the theory of the Lehrstueck the entertainment aspect of theater ...
... Brecht took the most uncompromising stand for an austere form of drama which he called Lehrstueck (learning play or didactic play). In Brecht's theoretical writings about the theory of the Lehrstueck the entertainment aspect of theater ...
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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