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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... Consciousness in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by Mihai Spariosu Literature as Existential Play Games for Death and Two Maidens, by Christopher Clausen Godot's Games and Beckett's Late Plays, by Ruby Cohn List of Works Cited ...
... Consciousness in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by Mihai Spariosu Literature as Existential Play Games for Death and Two Maidens, by Christopher Clausen Godot's Games and Beckett's Late Plays, by Ruby Cohn List of Works Cited ...
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... consciousness" that make the book remarkable.6 Ulysses was "sport" on the grandest possible scale, a container whose sides were sticky with the overspill of uncontainable liquids. Joyce of course survived Leavis' dismissal but Dickens ...
... consciousness" that make the book remarkable.6 Ulysses was "sport" on the grandest possible scale, a container whose sides were sticky with the overspill of uncontainable liquids. Joyce of course survived Leavis' dismissal but Dickens ...
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... dismiss), they manifest the final stage of 'Pataphysics practiced unconsciously before it mutates into the higher, conscious stage. Such events as these reveal the desperate measures of men starved for a new SUPERLIMINAL NOTE.
... dismiss), they manifest the final stage of 'Pataphysics practiced unconsciously before it mutates into the higher, conscious stage. Such events as these reveal the desperate measures of men starved for a new SUPERLIMINAL NOTE.
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... consciousness, "self"-consciousness perpetually twisting out of itself into the reaches of ethernity? Père Ubu's monstrous gidouille or belly is represented by a spiral, which Dr. Faustroll's 'Pataphysics transposes into a symbol of ...
... consciousness, "self"-consciousness perpetually twisting out of itself into the reaches of ethernity? Père Ubu's monstrous gidouille or belly is represented by a spiral, which Dr. Faustroll's 'Pataphysics transposes into a symbol of ...
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... consciousness that they are pretending, imitating the actions of characters outside their reality. Brecht's concept ... conscious people were experimenting, through trial and error, with patterns of human behavior, it would be recognized ...
... consciousness that they are pretending, imitating the actions of characters outside their reality. Brecht's concept ... conscious people were experimenting, through trial and error, with patterns of human behavior, it would be recognized ...
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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