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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... Playing with the Canon Hagiographic (Dis)play: Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale," by Katharina Wilson 37 Playing with Fire and Brimstone: Auctor Ludens, Diabolus Ludicrus, by William Lewis 3. Playing with Authorship Acts of Willful Play, by ...
... Playing with the Canon Hagiographic (Dis)play: Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale," by Katharina Wilson 37 Playing with Fire and Brimstone: Auctor Ludens, Diabolus Ludicrus, by William Lewis 3. Playing with Authorship Acts of Willful Play, by ...
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... Play to Plays: The Folklore of Comedy, by Harry Levin Waiting for the Other Shoe: Some Observations on Rhyme, by ... Play Games for Death and Two Maidens, by Christopher Clausen Godot's Games and Beckett's Late Plays, by Ruby Cohn List ...
... Play to Plays: The Folklore of Comedy, by Harry Levin Waiting for the Other Shoe: Some Observations on Rhyme, by ... Play Games for Death and Two Maidens, by Christopher Clausen Godot's Games and Beckett's Late Plays, by Ruby Cohn List ...
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Essays on Play in Literature Gerald Guinness, Andrew Hurley. PREFACE Auctor Ludens is a book about play practice rather than play theory. Practice, no doubt, inevitably presupposes theory--even if by "theory" we only mean those general ...
Essays on Play in Literature Gerald Guinness, Andrew Hurley. PREFACE Auctor Ludens is a book about play practice rather than play theory. Practice, no doubt, inevitably presupposes theory--even if by "theory" we only mean those general ...
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... play as well as write about it, but play has evidently proved to be a more serious occupation than we had bargained for; obviously the problem of how to write playfully (but not frivolously) about play is one that still awaits its ...
... play as well as write about it, but play has evidently proved to be a more serious occupation than we had bargained for; obviously the problem of how to write playfully (but not frivolously) about play is one that still awaits its ...
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... 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 College was too busy defending English literature in general ...
... 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 College was too busy defending English literature in general ...
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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