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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... century Bavarian and Austrian church art, in the tropical luxuriance of the mainstream nineteenthcentury European novel (Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, Balzac, Zola, Gogol, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, Manzoni), in Gaudí and Picasso ...
... century Bavarian and Austrian church art, in the tropical luxuriance of the mainstream nineteenthcentury European novel (Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, Balzac, Zola, Gogol, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, Manzoni), in Gaudí and Picasso ...
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... Century (New York, Evanston and London, 1958), pp. 48 and 60. 9"Speak! Speak! or may a bloody dysentery seize you!" (Donatello working on his prophet Habakkuk, or Zuccone). 10Ananda Coomaraswamy, The Dance of Shiva (New York, 1957), pp ...
... Century (New York, Evanston and London, 1958), pp. 48 and 60. 9"Speak! Speak! or may a bloody dysentery seize you!" (Donatello working on his prophet Habakkuk, or Zuccone). 10Ananda Coomaraswamy, The Dance of Shiva (New York, 1957), pp ...
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... century, however, at a time when science, art, and religion were coming very close to bumping into one another in the dark, did 'Pataphysics drop its disguises and disclose its intentions. Its chosen vessel was Alfred Jarry, who ...
... century, however, at a time when science, art, and religion were coming very close to bumping into one another in the dark, did 'Pataphysics drop its disguises and disclose its intentions. Its chosen vessel was Alfred Jarry, who ...
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... century. And, without inner conflict, he had become absorbed in the transformation taking place in science—not in the expiring positivism of his own country but in the highly imaginative investigations of a generation of British ...
... century. And, without inner conflict, he had become absorbed in the transformation taking place in science—not in the expiring positivism of his own country but in the highly imaginative investigations of a generation of British ...
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... century. Let them derive entertainment from the wisdom which comes from the solution of problems, from the indignation which can be usefully transformed into pity for the oppressed, from respect for those who respect human values, that ...
... century. Let them derive entertainment from the wisdom which comes from the solution of problems, from the indignation which can be usefully transformed into pity for the oppressed, from respect for those who respect human values, that ...
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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