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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... (now the first chapter of Lectures on Russian Literature). 13John Gardner, On Moral Fiction (New York, 1978), p. 91. SUPERLIMINAL NOTE Roger Shattuck The world is ready for 'Pataphysics-about FROM SPELLS TO SPILLS 7 NOTES.
... (now the first chapter of Lectures on Russian Literature). 13John Gardner, On Moral Fiction (New York, 1978), p. 91. SUPERLIMINAL NOTE Roger Shattuck The world is ready for 'Pataphysics-about FROM SPELLS TO SPILLS 7 NOTES.
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... Pataphysics-about as ready as it is for outer space. Occupying an inner space where we are at the same time most and least ourselves, 'Pataphysics has always been there. It will remain; unlike other spaces, it will never be conquered ...
... Pataphysics-about as ready as it is for outer space. Occupying an inner space where we are at the same time most and least ourselves, 'Pataphysics has always been there. It will remain; unlike other spaces, it will never be conquered ...
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... Pataphysics, Preceded by his Writings in 'Pataphysics. At this point it is probably necessary for me to make a gratuitous comment: I am quite serious. Seriously. What then is 'Pataphysics? This is no new literary-philosophical school ...
... Pataphysics, Preceded by his Writings in 'Pataphysics. At this point it is probably necessary for me to make a gratuitous comment: I am quite serious. Seriously. What then is 'Pataphysics? This is no new literary-philosophical school ...
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... Pataphysics in non-pataphysical terms. 1. 'Pataphysics is the science of the realm beyond metaphysics; or 'Pataphysics lies as far beyond metaphysics as metaphysics lies beyond physics—in one direction or another. Now, metaphysics is a ...
... Pataphysics in non-pataphysical terms. 1. 'Pataphysics is the science of the realm beyond metaphysics; or 'Pataphysics lies as far beyond metaphysics as metaphysics lies beyond physics—in one direction or another. Now, metaphysics is a ...
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... Pataphysics, all things are equal. The pataphysician not only accepts no final scientific explanation of the universe, he also looks askance at all values, moral, esthetic, and otherwise. The principle of universal equivalence and the ...
... Pataphysics, all things are equal. The pataphysician not only accepts no final scientific explanation of the universe, he also looks askance at all values, moral, esthetic, and otherwise. The principle of universal equivalence and the ...
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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