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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... learning, the pleasure of gaining insights, as among the greatest of sensual gratifications, superior even, at its highest degree, to sexual fulfillment. Thus there was no contradiction for Brecht between learning and playing. He ...
... learning, the pleasure of gaining insights, as among the greatest of sensual gratifications, superior even, at its highest degree, to sexual fulfillment. Thus there was no contradiction for Brecht between learning and playing. He ...
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... learning and amusement. The former may be useful, while the latter is merely pleasant....Undoubtedly the process of learning that we know from school, the preparation for our vocation and so on, is a laborious matter. But think under ...
... learning and amusement. The former may be useful, while the latter is merely pleasant....Undoubtedly the process of learning that we know from school, the preparation for our vocation and so on, is a laborious matter. But think under ...
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... (learning play or didactic play). In Brecht's theoretical writings about the theory of the Lehrstueck the entertainment aspect of theater is wellnigh totally submerged. On the other hand, paradoxically, this attitude underlines and ...
... (learning play or didactic play). In Brecht's theoretical writings about the theory of the Lehrstueck the entertainment aspect of theater is wellnigh totally submerged. On the other hand, paradoxically, this attitude underlines and ...
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... learning process. Learning by merely ingesting verbally conveyed truths seemed to him useless; the only efficacious way of learning the basic truths about behavior in society was by experiencing them in action, existentially. And the ...
... learning process. Learning by merely ingesting verbally conveyed truths seemed to him useless; the only efficacious way of learning the basic truths about behavior in society was by experiencing them in action, existentially. And the ...
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... learning through playing a role is expanded into the view that such role-playing can only be fully effective if each of the participants acts all the parts in turn, so that the victim can also feel what it is like to be the executioner ...
... learning through playing a role is expanded into the view that such role-playing can only be fully effective if each of the participants acts all the parts in turn, so that the victim can also feel what it is like to be the executioner ...
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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