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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... fictions of Gass or Barth I find Leavis' use of the phrase un jeu de quilles rising unbidden to my lips. Their playfulness isn't the playfulness of a political exile asserting the autonomy of his art, or of Dickens exulting in his ...
... fictions of Gass or Barth I find Leavis' use of the phrase un jeu de quilles rising unbidden to my lips. Their playfulness isn't the playfulness of a political exile asserting the autonomy of his art, or of Dickens exulting in his ...
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... fiction, as the title implies). One can draw the lines of similarity: the products of both onanism and poetry are sterile; both masturbation and poesis are fed by "fantasy," itself inspired by wine; and, to our purposes here, the ...
... fiction, as the title implies). One can draw the lines of similarity: the products of both onanism and poetry are sterile; both masturbation and poesis are fed by "fantasy," itself inspired by wine; and, to our purposes here, the ...
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... fiction are so obstreperous themselves that they wake us up to the fact that we are out here reading them—a subtle "Hey, you!" And in "Frame-Tale" Barth gives us a fiction which says only "Cut on dotted line. Twist end once and fasten ...
... fiction are so obstreperous themselves that they wake us up to the fact that we are out here reading them—a subtle "Hey, you!" And in "Frame-Tale" Barth gives us a fiction which says only "Cut on dotted line. Twist end once and fasten ...
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... fiction won't work unless you cooperate, allow yourself to be used, like the member of the audience for the magician, unless you cut, twist, fasten. But there is a much more famous, and difficult-to-assemble, fiction which begins with ...
... fiction won't work unless you cooperate, allow yourself to be used, like the member of the audience for the magician, unless you cut, twist, fasten. But there is a much more famous, and difficult-to-assemble, fiction which begins with ...
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... fiction. (Some fictions are more demanding of us than others—"Cut, twist, fasten.") The data of Moby-Dick are given to us in a jumble, which we are to hold and assimilate to ourselves and to further jumbles of data as the cetological ...
... fiction. (Some fictions are more demanding of us than others—"Cut, twist, fasten.") The data of Moby-Dick are given to us in a jumble, which we are to hold and assimilate to ourselves and to further jumbles of data as the cetological ...
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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