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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... Shakespeare, John Gay, Lenz, Molière, Sophocles and a host of other classical authors. This lighthearted, cavalier attitude to the masterpieces of the past can, I believe, also be seen as closely akin to a play-activity. Much of ...
... Shakespeare, John Gay, Lenz, Molière, Sophocles and a host of other classical authors. This lighthearted, cavalier attitude to the masterpieces of the past can, I believe, also be seen as closely akin to a play-activity. Much of ...
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... Shakespeare's Coriolanus Brecht reversed the meaning of the climactic scene: the hero no longer spares Rome because he does not want his mother and family to suffer, but because his mother has convinced him that the new armaments ...
... Shakespeare's Coriolanus Brecht reversed the meaning of the climactic scene: the hero no longer spares Rome because he does not want his mother and family to suffer, but because his mother has convinced him that the new armaments ...
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Contents
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37 | |
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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