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 vii
... come widely varying expressions of ludic energy and "performance." Play, in other words, may be interpreted as anything from surface ornamentation to the essential component of any creative activity whatsoever, or as integral PREFACE.
... come widely varying expressions of ludic energy and "performance." Play, in other words, may be interpreted as anything from surface ornamentation to the essential component of any creative activity whatsoever, or as integral PREFACE.
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... ludic nature of the theater, its need to be fun (Spass) and entertainment, he also always explained that he considered this aspect of the stage merely as the sugar coating of the pill, the bait which would make an audience ready to ...
... ludic nature of the theater, its need to be fun (Spass) and entertainment, he also always explained that he considered this aspect of the stage merely as the sugar coating of the pill, the bait which would make an audience ready to ...
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... ludic aspect of drama: the Lehrstuecke are primarily conceived as being for the education of the participants who learn by playing the roles and by rehearsing them: The Lehrstueck teaches principally by being acted and not by being seen ...
... ludic aspect of drama: the Lehrstuecke are primarily conceived as being for the education of the participants who learn by playing the roles and by rehearsing them: The Lehrstueck teaches principally by being acted and not by being seen ...
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... ludic role-playing of children who take turns in playing cowboys and Indians, parents and children. Brecht was well aware that a theory of drama which practically dispenses with the audience in the theater was open to the objection that ...
... ludic role-playing of children who take turns in playing cowboys and Indians, parents and children. Brecht was well aware that a theory of drama which practically dispenses with the audience in the theater was open to the objection that ...
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... ludic character of the theater. For, after all, in playing a game, the players are, precisely, constantly aware that they are not in a living reality, but merely in a conventionalized, pretended situation. The children playing cowboys ...
... ludic character of the theater. For, after all, in playing a game, the players are, precisely, constantly aware that they are not in a living reality, but merely in a conventionalized, pretended situation. The children playing cowboys ...
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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