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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 23
Page vii
... literary play caught their fancy, without briefing them in advance about what "play" was (something we weren't always sure we knew ourselves!) or where they should be looking for it. Auctor Ludens may as a consequence lack cogency, the ...
... literary play caught their fancy, without briefing them in advance about what "play" was (something we weren't always sure we knew ourselves!) or where they should be looking for it. Auctor Ludens may as a consequence lack cogency, the ...
Page 2
... literary play. A few years later at Cambridge I fell under the sway of a very different ghostly father and one who offered no cream cakes to the playful. Dr. F. R. Leavis of Downing College was too busy defending English literature in ...
... literary play. A few years later at Cambridge I fell under the sway of a very different ghostly father and one who offered no cream cakes to the playful. Dr. F. R. Leavis of Downing College was too busy defending English literature in ...
Page 3
... Literary works where the liquid fills the vessel up to the brim but without spilling beyond it demonstrate the integrity and coherence of true art where means are adapted to ends with a perfect economy and where every element bears its ...
... Literary works where the liquid fills the vessel up to the brim but without spilling beyond it demonstrate the integrity and coherence of true art where means are adapted to ends with a perfect economy and where every element bears its ...
Page 5
... literary creation as a form of lila. "When dealing with a work of art," he told his students, "we must always bear in mind that art is a divine game. These two elements—the elements of the divine and that of the game—are equally ...
... literary creation as a form of lila. "When dealing with a work of art," he told his students, "we must always bear in mind that art is a divine game. These two elements—the elements of the divine and that of the game—are equally ...
Page 6
... literary works uncontrolled throughout "to a unifying and organizing significance" may yet offer thrilling compensations meriting serious critical attention. And yet the moral authority of this ghostly doctor isn't easy to shrug off ...
... literary works uncontrolled throughout "to a unifying and organizing significance" may yet offer thrilling compensations meriting serious critical attention. And yet the moral authority of this ghostly doctor isn't easy to shrug off ...
Contents
1 | |
9 | |
15 | |
15 | |
37 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
A.J. Smith Absalom Absolon action actors adult agonistic Alice Alice Liddell amorous agon argument attitude Auctor Ludens audience Barth Beckett becomes Borges Brecht Caillois called Carey century characters comic consciousness Coy Mistress critical death despair devil Donne's drama Eliot English erotic essay Estragon fact Falstaff feel fiction final flyting Gravity's Rainbow hagiographic Homo Ludens Huizinga human Ibarra imagination John Donne Kolve language learning Leavis Lehrstueck literary literature liturgical drama look Lottery in Babylon ludic ludus meaning medieval metaphor Miller's Tale mind Mirabell Moby-Dick monologue moral never Nicholas nonsense novel Old Testament parody Pataphysics performance play player playful pleasure plot poem poet poetry possible pretending Prufrock put-on Queen Raymond Queneau reader reality rhyme role scene sense Shakespeare Songs stage story T.S. Eliot taking theater tock translation turn Underground universe verbal vertigo Vladimir woman words writer York