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
... player," and at the other the view that all literature, from a Petrarchan sonnet to Paradise Lost, is in some sense "playful"; in between come widely varying expressions of ludic energy and "performance." Play, in other words, may be ...
... player," and at the other the view that all literature, from a Petrarchan sonnet to Paradise Lost, is in some sense "playful"; in between come widely varying expressions of ludic energy and "performance." Play, in other words, may be ...
Page 5
... player (if he or she is still within range) to imprisonment or exile. For what is only art as what is only laughter, Milan Kundera reminds us, is in the context of totalitarian regimes an act of the deepest subversiveness. A theory of ...
... player (if he or she is still within range) to imprisonment or exile. For what is only art as what is only laughter, Milan Kundera reminds us, is in the context of totalitarian regimes an act of the deepest subversiveness. A theory of ...
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... players. The point is to say it first and without it sounding forced. One admires these poor men of state trying to brighten a bleak life of cultural exchange and disarmament. But the cat is out of the bag: diplomacy is finally un ...
... players. The point is to say it first and without it sounding forced. One admires these poor men of state trying to brighten a bleak life of cultural exchange and disarmament. But the cat is out of the bag: diplomacy is finally un ...
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... player can be socially influenced by the execution of certain modes of behavior, the adoption of certain attitudes ... players have invented themselves and topical allusions can be all the more easily inserted.4 The participants are to ...
... player can be socially influenced by the execution of certain modes of behavior, the adoption of certain attitudes ... players have invented themselves and topical allusions can be all the more easily inserted.4 The participants are to ...
Page 28
... players speaking the sentence, making the gesture or carrying out the action....5 These fragments of a pedagogical handbook for the Utopian Marxist state, which probably date from the early 1930s, are perhaps the clearest statement of ...
... players speaking the sentence, making the gesture or carrying out the action....5 These fragments of a pedagogical handbook for the Utopian Marxist state, which probably date from the early 1930s, are perhaps the clearest statement of ...
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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