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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... meaning"; or highlighting the irreducibly anarchic elements in literature, and so undermining the New Critical emphasis on a perfect match between form and content; or restoring literature to the realm of self-justifying pleasure, and ...
... meaning"; or highlighting the irreducibly anarchic elements in literature, and so undermining the New Critical emphasis on a perfect match between form and content; or restoring literature to the realm of self-justifying pleasure, and ...
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... meaning anything. Only our priestly officiant (disbarred from practising some rites and thus intent on inventing others) knew what this spell meant; for us it was enough that we could chant it aloud in class, or in the dormitory after ...
... meaning anything. Only our priestly officiant (disbarred from practising some rites and thus intent on inventing others) knew what this spell meant; for us it was enough that we could chant it aloud in class, or in the dormitory after ...
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... meaning and of rule, they were perfect types for 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 ...
... meaning and of rule, they were perfect types for 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 ...
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... meaning. Michelangelo's late great works are unfinished sketches and that sense of straining at a boundary is part of their power over us, as with the (deliberately?) unfinished state of the male statues in the Medici Chapel. And are ...
... meaning. Michelangelo's late great works are unfinished sketches and that sense of straining at a boundary is part of their power over us, as with the (deliberately?) unfinished state of the male statues in the Medici Chapel. And are ...
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... meaning was concealed in even the least important work of art....For the most part [the artists] were content to be craftsmen who delighted in nature for its own sake, sometimes lovingly copying the living forms, sometimes playing with ...
... meaning was concealed in even the least important work of art....For the most part [the artists] were content to be craftsmen who delighted in nature for its own sake, sometimes lovingly copying the living forms, sometimes playing with ...
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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