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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... feel the need to say in discussing a work of literature, but bringing them center stage at least may help to restore to reading, and hence to writing about literature, much of that bloom of joyousness and unpredictability that many ...
... feel the need to say in discussing a work of literature, but bringing them center stage at least may help to restore to reading, and hence to writing about literature, much of that bloom of joyousness and unpredictability that many ...
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... to live his rather pure and moral existence. But his whole argument is a negative one, based on the premise that to call up a positive response to oneself, one need only make that other person feel disgust for his TO "MAKE" AN AUDIENCE 17.
... to live his rather pure and moral existence. But his whole argument is a negative one, based on the premise that to call up a positive response to oneself, one need only make that other person feel disgust for his TO "MAKE" AN AUDIENCE 17.
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... feel disgust for his life, and thus by extension and inference, longing for one's own life: What actually happened was that Liza, whom I had humiliated and crushed, understood much more than I had thought. Out of all I had said, she had ...
... feel disgust for his life, and thus by extension and inference, longing for one's own life: What actually happened was that Liza, whom I had humiliated and crushed, understood much more than I had thought. Out of all I had said, she had ...
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... feel, just as Liza does, that he would not indulge in such malicious aggressions if we were not important to him. As we are. This "you" is a very potent metaphor. It is stronger than "dear reader," stronger by far than Humbert Humbert's ...
... feel, just as Liza does, that he would not indulge in such malicious aggressions if we were not important to him. As we are. This "you" is a very potent metaphor. It is stronger than "dear reader," stronger by far than Humbert Humbert's ...
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... feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine. With greedy ears I learned the history of the murderous monster against whom I and all the others had taken our oaths of violence and revenge. (175) This is, it seems, a moving and ...
... feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine. With greedy ears I learned the history of the murderous monster against whom I and all the others had taken our oaths of violence and revenge. (175) This is, it seems, a moving and ...
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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