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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... pretends it's there. It would seem a far leap from Anonymous on his island to the Underground Man, and yet in his dealings with his various audiences the Underground Man is quite fantastic. When he tells us the story of his encounter ...
... pretends it's there. It would seem a far leap from Anonymous on his island to the Underground Man, and yet in his dealings with his various audiences the Underground Man is quite fantastic. When he tells us the story of his encounter ...
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... pretending not to have noticed a thing. But I know he was just pretending, I'm sure of it to this day. (135) Obviously the Underground Man has just invented an audience, one not at all, furthermore, interested in his performance. The ...
... pretending not to have noticed a thing. But I know he was just pretending, I'm sure of it to this day. (135) Obviously the Underground Man has just invented an audience, one not at all, furthermore, interested in his performance. The ...
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... pretended situation. The children playing cowboys and Indians remain aware that they are neither Indians nor cowboys; their enjoyment of the game arises, precisely, from their consciousness that they are pretending, imitating the ...
... pretended situation. The children playing cowboys and Indians remain aware that they are neither Indians nor cowboys; their enjoyment of the game arises, precisely, from their consciousness that they are pretending, imitating the ...
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Contents
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37 | |
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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