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
... Critical emphasis on a perfect match between form and content; or restoring literature to the realm of self-justifying pleasure, and so snatching it from the jaws of Marxist instrumentality. Such a paragon of critical method, could it ...
... Critical emphasis on a perfect match between form and content; or restoring literature to the realm of self-justifying pleasure, and so snatching it from the jaws of Marxist instrumentality. Such a paragon of critical method, could it ...
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... Critical dealings with the novel).5 So too with Joyce's Ulysses where there is "no organic principle determining, informing, and controlling into a vital whole, the elaborate analogical structure, the extraordinary variety of technical ...
... Critical dealings with the novel).5 So too with Joyce's Ulysses where there is "no organic principle determining, informing, and controlling into a vital whole, the elaborate analogical structure, the extraordinary variety of technical ...
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... critical complicity this literature demands is closely paralleled by the creative-critical complicity involved in creating (i.e., performing and listening to) a work of music. A musical composition may be studied, analyzed, even ...
... critical complicity this literature demands is closely paralleled by the creative-critical complicity involved in creating (i.e., performing and listening to) a work of music. A musical composition may be studied, analyzed, even ...
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... critical mood, see it as a historical event in its own context (and that equally of a play with a contemporary setting which should then be seen as just another historical context) and then come to its own, critical conclusions which ...
... critical mood, see it as a historical event in its own context (and that equally of a play with a contemporary setting which should then be seen as just another historical context) and then come to its own, critical conclusions which ...
Page 32
... critical sensibility to that experience. While, on the one hand, actually, albeit vicariously, experiencing, say, Othello's jealousy and possessiveness towards Desdemona, he is, at the same time, on the other hand, called upon to ...
... critical sensibility to that experience. While, on the one hand, actually, albeit vicariously, experiencing, say, Othello's jealousy and possessiveness towards Desdemona, he is, at the same time, on the other hand, called upon to ...
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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