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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... poems. The reward was a delicious collation of cream cakes. This same teacher also had the habit of getting his boys ... poem since leaving school but who can still recite "spells" in the bath or when they revisit the alma mater for an ...
... poems. The reward was a delicious collation of cream cakes. This same teacher also had the habit of getting his boys ... poem since leaving school but who can still recite "spells" in the bath or when they revisit the alma mater for an ...
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... poems like D.H. Lawrence's "Piano" where as he put it, "the emotion runs both ways," i.e., doubles back on itself, creating a counter-movement and so keeping the liquid in motion so that it doesn't spill beyond the brim.) But what of an ...
... poems like D.H. Lawrence's "Piano" where as he put it, "the emotion runs both ways," i.e., doubles back on itself, creating a counter-movement and so keeping the liquid in motion so that it doesn't spill beyond the brim.) But what of an ...
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... poems, that they are not so much completed as abandoned, is true of all art. "Spills" are timely reminders of this abandonment, of how no work is finished and every work flawed, and of how even a masterpiece is in a sense a victory ...
... poems, that they are not so much completed as abandoned, is true of all art. "Spills" are timely reminders of this abandonment, of how no work is finished and every work flawed, and of how even a masterpiece is in a sense a victory ...
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... poems, and sometimes the nature of the gigantic difficulties to be overcome. For, as has been said of Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata, no pianist should make the last movement sound too easy, a certain sense of strain (as in Schnabel's ...
... poems, and sometimes the nature of the gigantic difficulties to be overcome. For, as has been said of Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata, no pianist should make the last movement sound too easy, a certain sense of strain (as in Schnabel's ...
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... 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 even ...
... 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 even ...
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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