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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... possible in part by a contribution from the University Research Fund of the University of Puerto Rico Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Auctor Ludens : Essays on Play in Literature / Edited by Gerald Guinness and Andrew ...
... possible in part by a contribution from the University Research Fund of the University of Puerto Rico Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Auctor Ludens : Essays on Play in Literature / Edited by Gerald Guinness and Andrew ...
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... possible readings of the play idea that our contributors have turned up is truly astonishing. At one extreme are surface games and mystifications, evidence of the writer as deliberate "player," and at the other the view that all ...
... possible readings of the play idea that our contributors have turned up is truly astonishing. At one extreme are surface games and mystifications, evidence of the writer as deliberate "player," and at the other the view that all ...
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... possible scale, a container whose sides were sticky with the overspill of uncontainable liquids. Joyce of course survived Leavis' dismissal but Dickens has needed several campaigns of rehabilitation to redeem him for serious reading ...
... possible scale, a container whose sides were sticky with the overspill of uncontainable liquids. Joyce of course survived Leavis' dismissal but Dickens has needed several campaigns of rehabilitation to redeem him for serious reading ...
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... possible. Nor is any neutral audition possible either. The listener too "creates" music by listening to it well, by playing along with the performer to the best of his ability, and in this he "comes nearest to God through becoming a ...
... possible. Nor is any neutral audition possible either. The listener too "creates" music by listening to it well, by playing along with the performer to the best of his ability, and in this he "comes nearest to God through becoming a ...
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... possible to say very simply with Père Ubu: "'Pataphysics is a branch of science we have invented and for which a crying need is generally experienced." Faustroll wasted less words when he took over: "La 'Pataphysique est la science ...
... possible to say very simply with Père Ubu: "'Pataphysics is a branch of science we have invented and for which a crying need is generally experienced." Faustroll wasted less words when he took over: "La 'Pataphysique est la science ...
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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