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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... called "spells." Some spells were from difficult poets like T.S. Eliot, whose work there was no prospect we would understand at that age, and some were in languages we might never understand, such as Hungarian. Nonetheless many lines ...
... called "spells." Some spells were from difficult poets like T.S. Eliot, whose work there was no prospect we would understand at that age, and some were in languages we might never understand, such as Hungarian. Nonetheless many lines ...
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... called "ethernity." That, of course, is where we all live. 2. 'Pataphysics is the science of the particular, of laws governing exceptions. The realm beyond metaphysics will not be reached by vaster and vaster generalities; this has been ...
... called "ethernity." That, of course, is where we all live. 2. 'Pataphysics is the science of the particular, of laws governing exceptions. The realm beyond metaphysics will not be reached by vaster and vaster generalities; this has been ...
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... called that) with the officer, we see the range of the Underground Man's inventiveness: I was standing by the billiard table, inadvertently blocking the officer's way. He grabbed me by the shoulders and, without a word, picked me up and ...
... called that) with the officer, we see the range of the Underground Man's inventiveness: I was standing by the billiard table, inadvertently blocking the officer's way. He grabbed me by the shoulders and, without a word, picked me up and ...
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... . He insists on being both utterly in power and utterly abject, dependent on our tolerance. He trades on what in this cynical and post-humanrights-activist era has been called our liberal guilt for his ability 18 HURLEY.
... . He insists on being both utterly in power and utterly abject, dependent on our tolerance. He trades on what in this cynical and post-humanrights-activist era has been called our liberal guilt for his ability 18 HURLEY.
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... called our liberal guilt for his ability both to master and insidiously, perversely, to be mastered. It is not enough to perform for an audience; one must convince. And if one says "I am a sick man, a mean man," one must not only say it ...
... called our liberal guilt for his ability both to master and insidiously, perversely, to be mastered. It is not enough to perform for an audience; one must convince. And if one says "I am a sick man, a mean man," one must not only say it ...
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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