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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Page viii
... action against all current critical orthodoxies, or at the very least offering a prophylactic against their worst excesses: for example, by insisting on the author as "playing" his material, thereby strengthening a sense of authorial ...
... action against all current critical orthodoxies, or at the very least offering a prophylactic against their worst excesses: for example, by insisting on the author as "playing" his material, thereby strengthening a sense of authorial ...
Page 20
... action, and tells us, sometimes obliquely, of our own importance to it. One example is the scene at the mainmast when Ahab, stirred to a frenzy of hate and desire, nails the doubloon to the mast and celebrates an elaborately and ...
... action, and tells us, sometimes obliquely, of our own importance to it. One example is the scene at the mainmast when Ahab, stirred to a frenzy of hate and desire, nails the doubloon to the mast and celebrates an elaborately and ...
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... action. No doubt he is underlining for us what she began subtly to indicate—that audiences are central to, essential to, tellers' lives, that their lives depend on us. The continued vitality of them and their work, their immortality (or ...
... action. No doubt he is underlining for us what she began subtly to indicate—that audiences are central to, essential to, tellers' lives, that their lives depend on us. The continued vitality of them and their work, their immortality (or ...
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... action: The bourgeois philosophers differentiate between the active and the contemplative individual. This is a differentiation which the thinking man does not make. If one makes this differentiation, one leaves politics to the active ...
... action: The bourgeois philosophers differentiate between the active and the contemplative individual. This is a differentiation which the thinking man does not make. If one makes this differentiation, one leaves politics to the active ...
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... action alone. By accomplishing through their play-activity actions which are objects of their own contemplation the young people are being educated for the state. These plays must be so invented and carried out that the state benefits ...
... action alone. By accomplishing through their play-activity actions which are objects of their own contemplation the young people are being educated for the state. These plays must be so invented and carried out that the state benefits ...
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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