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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... fact a great deal in common. Both of them place value on skill and performance, on a controlled yet often passionate insincerity, on creative habits of improvisation and flux within set limits, and on the enhancement of pleasure ...
... fact a great deal in common. Both of them place value on skill and performance, on a controlled yet often passionate insincerity, on creative habits of improvisation and flux within set limits, and on the enhancement of pleasure ...
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... fact meant something marginal or eccentric, and away from that "center" which is where all great literature belongs. And as for works whose deliberate claims on our attention are based on their gratuitous high spirits or their ...
... fact meant something marginal or eccentric, and away from that "center" which is where all great literature belongs. And as for works whose deliberate claims on our attention are based on their gratuitous high spirits or their ...
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... fact. Then too spills occur when the marks of the chisel are left in the stone, and breaks, junctures, changes of plan, pentimenti become visible and even palpable. Some great works—Don Quixote, As You Like It, Pickwick Papers--seem to ...
... fact. Then too spills occur when the marks of the chisel are left in the stone, and breaks, junctures, changes of plan, pentimenti become visible and even palpable. Some great works—Don Quixote, As You Like It, Pickwick Papers--seem to ...
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... facts—travel of light or fall of an apple. 'Pataphysics welcomes all scientific theories (they are getting better and better) and treats each one not as a generality but as an attempt, sometimes heroic and sometimes pathetic, to pin ...
... facts—travel of light or fall of an apple. 'Pataphysics welcomes all scientific theories (they are getting better and better) and treats each one not as a generality but as an attempt, sometimes heroic and sometimes pathetic, to pin ...
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... fact, his characteristic ploy. The Underground Man's mask of superiority has sufficient chinks in it for the perceptive and humaneand badgered-audience to perceive the pain it masks. He trusts us to know that "sarcasm is a screen-the ...
... fact, his characteristic ploy. The Underground Man's mask of superiority has sufficient chinks in it for the perceptive and humaneand badgered-audience to perceive the pain it masks. He trusts us to know that "sarcasm is a screen-the ...
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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