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
... 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.
... 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.
Page viii
... performance, on a controlled yet often passionate insincerity, on creative habits of improvisation and flux within set limits, and on the enhancement of pleasure. Moreover, they both concede to their subject some of that mystery and ...
... performance, on a controlled yet often passionate insincerity, on creative habits of improvisation and flux within set limits, and on the enhancement of pleasure. Moreover, they both concede to their subject some of that mystery and ...
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... performance, even of virtuosity, which, whether we respond to it in acrobatics or in athletics or in prestidigitation or in the ballet or in music or in literature, is of enormous human significance." This was a timely reminder that ...
... performance, even of virtuosity, which, whether we respond to it in acrobatics or in athletics or in prestidigitation or in the ballet or in music or in literature, is of enormous human significance." This was a timely reminder that ...
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... performance, and all the teller's art must reach for the moment of surrender of the other. (3) The ways of seduction must be subtle and yet—well, seductive. The audience is swayed not precisely against its will, for this is not a rape ...
... performance, and all the teller's art must reach for the moment of surrender of the other. (3) The ways of seduction must be subtle and yet—well, seductive. The audience is swayed not precisely against its will, for this is not a rape ...
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... performance. The production has fallen into an abyss of disinterest. The officer is entirely ignorant of his role, but the Underground Man has a kind of dialogue, a very physical and almost entirely imaginary dialogue, with him that is ...
... performance. The production has fallen into an abyss of disinterest. The officer is entirely ignorant of his role, but the Underground Man has a kind of dialogue, a very physical and almost entirely imaginary dialogue, with him that is ...
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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