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 6
... final argument in this defense of a literature of spells and spills: the creative-critical complicity this literature demands is closely paralleled by the creative-critical complicity involved in creating (i.e., performing and listening ...
... final argument in this defense of a literature of spells and spills: the creative-critical complicity this literature demands is closely paralleled by the creative-critical complicity involved in creating (i.e., performing and listening ...
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... ), 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.
... ), 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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... final scientific explanation of the universe, he also looks askance at all values, moral, esthetic, and otherwise. The principle of universal equivalence and the conversion of opposites reduces the world in its pataphysical reality to ...
... final scientific explanation of the universe, he also looks askance at all values, moral, esthetic, and otherwise. The principle of universal equivalence and the conversion of opposites reduces the world in its pataphysical reality to ...
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... final performance has value only insofar as it forces the participants to crown the rehearsal process with a final existential experience of maximum intensity and concentration. The audience, while also able to learn something from ...
... final performance has value only insofar as it forces the participants to crown the rehearsal process with a final existential experience of maximum intensity and concentration. The audience, while also able to learn something from ...
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... final solution. It draws strength from the act of elimination. Moreover, the productivity of the individual participants in the process is uneven; they are productive at different rates of speed and need different incentives. The ...
... final solution. It draws strength from the act of elimination. Moreover, the productivity of the individual participants in the process is uneven; they are productive at different rates of speed and need different incentives. 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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