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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... novel).5 So too with Joyce's Ulysses where there is "no organic principle determining, informing, and controlling into a vital whole, the elaborate analogical structure, the extraordinary variety of technical devices, the attempts at an ...
... novel).5 So too with Joyce's Ulysses where there is "no organic principle determining, informing, and controlling into a vital whole, the elaborate analogical structure, the extraordinary variety of technical devices, the attempts at an ...
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... novel (Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, Balzac, Zola, Gogol, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, Manzoni), in Gaudí and Picasso and Paul Klee's "taking a line for a walk"? Then too we may see the liquid spilling beyond its container in some ...
... novel (Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, Balzac, Zola, Gogol, Dostoievsky, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, Manzoni), in Gaudí and Picasso and Paul Klee's "taking a line for a walk"? Then too we may see the liquid spilling beyond its container in some ...
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... novels, poems, and speculative texts, Jarry elaborated and applied the science of sciences. Both Jarry and 'Pataphysics have remained controversial subjects in French literature through the periods of Symbolism, Dada, Surrealism, and ...
... novels, poems, and speculative texts, Jarry elaborated and applied the science of sciences. Both Jarry and 'Pataphysics have remained controversial subjects in French literature through the periods of Symbolism, Dada, Surrealism, and ...
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... novel. Because of his curious psychopathology it seems necessary for the Underground Man not simply to have an audience, but actively to sway an audience from revulsionmore than mere indifference—to acknowledgement and sympathy. The ...
... novel. Because of his curious psychopathology it seems necessary for the Underground Man not simply to have an audience, but actively to sway an audience from revulsionmore than mere indifference—to acknowledgement and sympathy. The ...
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... novel, and points to himself as a "sick man, a mean man." He is arrogant. He lies, then admits, flaunting, his lies. He is superior and patronizing, even to us. He is selfpitying and hypochondriac, little more than a quivering raw nerve ...
... novel, and points to himself as a "sick man, a mean man." He is arrogant. He lies, then admits, flaunting, his lies. He is superior and patronizing, even to us. He is selfpitying and hypochondriac, little more than a quivering raw nerve ...
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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