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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... actor makes his own, pretends it's there. It would seem a far leap from Anonymous on his island to the Underground Man, and yet in his dealings with his various audiences the Underground Man is quite fantastic. When he tells us the ...
... actor makes his own, pretends it's there. It would seem a far leap from Anonymous on his island to the Underground Man, and yet in his dealings with his various audiences the Underground Man is quite fantastic. When he tells us the ...
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... acting in drama, which means to make them simultaneously into active and contemplative individuals, as it is suggested in the prescripts of the pedagogies. Pleasure in contemplation by itself is harmful to the state; BRECHT AND THE ...
... acting in drama, which means to make them simultaneously into active and contemplative individuals, as it is suggested in the prescripts of the pedagogies. Pleasure in contemplation by itself is harmful to the state; BRECHT AND THE ...
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... acting as the best way towards what amounts to an existential learning process. Learning by merely ingesting verbally ... actors to reach the highest possible pitch of concentration. In the case of his most ambitious—and undoubtedly his ...
... acting as the best way towards what amounts to an existential learning process. Learning by merely ingesting verbally ... actors to reach the highest possible pitch of concentration. In the case of his most ambitious—and undoubtedly his ...
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... actor who plays The Young Comrade can learn from it, and he only, if he has also acted one of the agitators and has sung in the control choir.6 Here then the concept of existential learning through playing a role is expanded into the ...
... actor who plays The Young Comrade can learn from it, and he only, if he has also acted one of the agitators and has sung in the control choir.6 Here then the concept of existential learning through playing a role is expanded into the ...
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... acting at opposite extremes from Stanislavsky's precepts to actors which are based on the idea that you must first feel the emotion before trying to express it.) When writing these notes about the amateur theater, ten years after his ...
... acting at opposite extremes from Stanislavsky's precepts to actors which are based on the idea that you must first feel the emotion before trying to express it.) When writing these notes about the amateur theater, ten years after his ...
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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