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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... never understand, such as Hungarian. Nonetheless many lines lodged in our memories like burrs and there are probably to this day bank managers in Darlington or Dundee who have never read a poem since leaving school but who can still ...
... never understand, such as Hungarian. Nonetheless many lines lodged in our memories like burrs and there are probably to this day bank managers in Darlington or Dundee who have never read a poem since leaving school but who can still ...
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... never overflow, the brim. Leavis' own term for that exact proportion between means and ends, that finding of the vessel for a determinate amount of liquid, was "realization." An emotion is "realized"-captured, 2 GUINNESS.
... never overflow, the brim. Leavis' own term for that exact proportion between means and ends, that finding of the vessel for a determinate amount of liquid, was "realization." An emotion is "realized"-captured, 2 GUINNESS.
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... of defeat. And what of God Himself? Isn't He at least the one perfect finisher? Not so, say the Hindus, for even He never completes anything but keeps the cosmos in a state of semi-creation, playing it into life through lila, 4 GUINNESS.
... of defeat. And what of God Himself? Isn't He at least the one perfect finisher? Not so, say the Hindus, for even He never completes anything but keeps the cosmos in a state of semi-creation, playing it into life through lila, 4 GUINNESS.
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... never be conquered. Yet the Science of Sciences has had a name and a place on earth for only sixty odd years, and recently it has begun to lurk almost too visibly in certain prominent forms of human activity. So the time has come to ...
... never be conquered. Yet the Science of Sciences has had a name and a place on earth for only sixty odd years, and recently it has begun to lurk almost too visibly in certain prominent forms of human activity. So the time has come to ...
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... never gone in for literature before, I took it in my head to caricature this officer in a short story....But at that time, exposés weren't in vogue yet, and my manuscript was rejected....Finally, I decided to challenge him to a duel. I ...
... never gone in for literature before, I took it in my head to caricature this officer in a short story....But at that time, exposés weren't in vogue yet, and my manuscript was rejected....Finally, I decided to challenge him to a duel. I ...
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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