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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... Lehrstueck teaches principally by being acted and not by being seen. In principle no audience is needed for a Lehrstueck, although naturally there can also be one. The Lehrstueck is based on the expectation that the player can be ...
... Lehrstueck teaches principally by being acted and not by being seen. In principle no audience is needed for a Lehrstueck, although naturally there can also be one. The Lehrstueck is based on the expectation that the player can be ...
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... Lehrstueck, Die Massnahme {The Measures Taken), Brecht, in fact, finally came to the point where he insisted on the elimination of the audience altogether. The Measures Taken depicts an episode from the revolutionary struggle of a group ...
... Lehrstueck, Die Massnahme {The Measures Taken), Brecht, in fact, finally came to the point where he insisted on the elimination of the audience altogether. The Measures Taken depicts an episode from the revolutionary struggle of a group ...
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... Lehrstueck, was that, in fact, there were many hundreds of thousands of members of workers' choral societies and left wing amateur theatrical groups who could use these texts and scores, and, moreover, that in an ideal society more and ...
... Lehrstueck, was that, in fact, there were many hundreds of thousands of members of workers' choral societies and left wing amateur theatrical groups who could use these texts and scores, and, moreover, that in an ideal society more and ...
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... Lehrstueck, Brecht had, however, abandoned the austere idea that audiences were of merely secondary importance. Yet the audience he had in mind was a different kind of audience from that of traditional concepts of theater. He wanted an ...
... Lehrstueck, Brecht had, however, abandoned the austere idea that audiences were of merely secondary importance. Yet the audience he had in mind was a different kind of audience from that of traditional concepts of theater. He wanted an ...
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... Lehrstuecks, Gesammelte Werke, vol. 17, p. 1024. 4Ibid. 5Ibid. p. 1023. The passage quoted was to form part of a book to be entitled Pedagogies. 6Brecht, Anmerkung (zu den Lehrstuecken), Gesammelte Werke, vol. 17, p. 1035. 7Brecht ...
... Lehrstuecks, Gesammelte Werke, vol. 17, p. 1024. 4Ibid. 5Ibid. p. 1023. The passage quoted was to form part of a book to be entitled Pedagogies. 6Brecht, Anmerkung (zu den Lehrstuecken), Gesammelte Werke, vol. 17, p. 1035. 7Brecht ...
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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