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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... human significance." This was a timely reminder that relaxation and the gratuitous expenditure of energy-in a word, play—are also elements of our moral universe and that individuals can realize that world through relaxation and ...
... human significance." This was a timely reminder that relaxation and the gratuitous expenditure of energy-in a word, play—are also elements of our moral universe and that individuals can realize that world through relaxation and ...
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... human activity. So the time has come to talk of 'Pataphysics. Just recall a few of last year's major happenings. A British newspaper organized a race between a marble arch in London and a limestone arch in Paris, and all Europe gaped in ...
... human activity. So the time has come to talk of 'Pataphysics. Just recall a few of last year's major happenings. A British newspaper organized a race between a marble arch in London and a limestone arch in Paris, and all Europe gaped in ...
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... human values, but in the manner of the child looking through a kaleidoscope or the astronomer studying the galaxy. Copyright © 1960 by Evergreen Review Reprinted by permission of Roger Shattuck. Part I: Authors at Play Playing with the ...
... human values, but in the manner of the child looking through a kaleidoscope or the astronomer studying the galaxy. Copyright © 1960 by Evergreen Review Reprinted by permission of Roger Shattuck. Part I: Authors at Play Playing with the ...
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... human values, that is to say who are friendly towards men, in short from everything that pleases those who are productive.1 For Brecht there was no conflict between the amusing and the didactic. He regarded learning, the pleasure of ...
... human values, that is to say who are friendly towards men, in short from everything that pleases those who are productive.1 For Brecht there was no conflict between the amusing and the didactic. He regarded learning, the pleasure of ...
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... human beings is achieved. The child learns, long before it is provided with arguments, how to behave by wholly theatrical means. When certain things happen, the child hears (or sees) that one has to laugh. The child laughs with the ...
... human beings is achieved. The child learns, long before it is provided with arguments, how to behave by wholly theatrical means. When certain things happen, the child hears (or sees) that one has to laugh. The child laughs with 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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