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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... Playfulness by Martin Esslin 2. Playing with the Canon Hagiographic (Dis)play: Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale," by ... Playful Atoms of Jorge Luis Borges, by Alexander Coleman Inter-Lude Play-Translations, edited by Gerald Guinness 91 ...
... Playfulness by Martin Esslin 2. Playing with the Canon Hagiographic (Dis)play: Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale," by ... Playful Atoms of Jorge Luis Borges, by Alexander Coleman Inter-Lude Play-Translations, edited by Gerald Guinness 91 ...
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... playful"; in between come widely 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 ...
... playful"; in between come widely 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 ...
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... playfulness commensurate with that of the works they examine. We had hoped to be able to demonstrate play as well as ... playfully (but not frivolously) about play is one that still awaits its solution. We wish subsequent critici ...
... playfulness commensurate with that of the works they examine. We had hoped to be able to demonstrate play as well as ... playfully (but not frivolously) about play is one that still awaits its solution. We wish subsequent critici ...
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... playful. Dr. F. R. Leavis of Downing College was too busy defending English literature in general and Cambridge English in particular against the heathen hordes (the dilettante dons at King's, the Sunday reviewers, the British Council) ...
... playful. Dr. F. R. Leavis of Downing College was too busy defending English literature in general and Cambridge English in particular against the heathen hordes (the dilettante dons at King's, the Sunday reviewers, the British Council) ...
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... playful becomes a very serious matter and may lead the 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 ...
... playful becomes a very serious matter and may lead the 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 ...
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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