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
... ludus, could surely come later. This decision to make Auctor Ludens a book of paidia-przctice rather than of ludus-theory should not, however, be taken to imply that we didn't start with, and remain faithful to, one very general ...
... ludus, could surely come later. This decision to make Auctor Ludens a book of paidia-przctice rather than of ludus-theory should not, however, be taken to imply that we didn't start with, and remain faithful to, one very general ...
Page viii
... appropriate tone and hope that their excursions into paidia and ludus will benefit from the start we have made in Auctor Ludens. The Editors Pre-Lude FROM SPELLS TO SPILLS Gerald Guinness Groucho. Art. Well viii PREFACE.
... appropriate tone and hope that their excursions into paidia and ludus will benefit from the start we have made in Auctor Ludens. The Editors Pre-Lude FROM SPELLS TO SPILLS Gerald Guinness Groucho. Art. Well viii PREFACE.
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... (ludus) at the other.8 In the column of the mimetic games Caillois lists the spontaneous mimetic playing of children under paidia, while the theater appears at the other end as the most rigid embodiment of strictly regulated playing or ludus ...
... (ludus) at the other.8 In the column of the mimetic games Caillois lists the spontaneous mimetic playing of children under paidia, while the theater appears at the other end as the most rigid embodiment of strictly regulated playing or ludus ...
Page 34
... ludus. Yet, here again, Brecht looked at his model books in a dialectical spirit. On the one hand he wanted them to be permanent records, clear statements of how he had wanted his own plays to be performed; on the other, he also ...
... ludus. Yet, here again, Brecht looked at his model books in a dialectical spirit. On the one hand he wanted them to be permanent records, clear statements of how he had wanted his own plays to be performed; on the other, he also ...
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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 |
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