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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... put it, "the emotion runs both ways," i.e., doubles back on itself, creating a counter-movement and so keeping the ... on the grandest possible scale, a container whose sides were sticky with the overspill of uncontainable liquids. Joyce ...
... put it, "the emotion runs both ways," i.e., doubles back on itself, creating a counter-movement and so keeping the ... on the grandest possible scale, a container whose sides were sticky with the overspill of uncontainable liquids. Joyce ...
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... into a new vision, a new life. For my purposes, Scheherazade's story is rich in ... on the docks in New York to find out Little Nell's fate! But she would be ... put her down, literarily or sexually. A good read, a good (pardon my Arabic) ...
... into a new vision, a new life. For my purposes, Scheherazade's story is rich in ... on the docks in New York to find out Little Nell's fate! But she would be ... put her down, literarily or sexually. A good read, a good (pardon my Arabic) ...
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... into the world of the words, that is. And in ... put his arm around our shoulders and made us, as though long friends, his companion for the evening and for what promises to be a considerable voyage. Our gaze is directed to a painting on ...
... into the world of the words, that is. And in ... put his arm around our shoulders and made us, as though long friends, his companion for the evening and for what promises to be a considerable voyage. Our gaze is directed to a painting on ...
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Essays on Play in Literature Gerald Guinness, Andrew Hurley. sometimes ... put the book down. In fact, it is ironic that many readers find Barth so ... on us. The continued vitality of them and their work, their immortality (or sudden ...
Essays on Play in Literature Gerald Guinness, Andrew Hurley. sometimes ... put the book down. In fact, it is ironic that many readers find Barth so ... on us. The continued vitality of them and their work, their immortality (or sudden ...
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... on his being able to make apparent what is not a solution. He must contribute questions, doubt, a multiplicity of ... put a moustache on the Mona Lisa, just to see what impression that would make? Brecht constantly re- wrote and changed ...
... on his being able to make apparent what is not a solution. He must contribute questions, doubt, a multiplicity of ... put a moustache on the Mona Lisa, just to see what impression that would make? Brecht constantly re- wrote and changed ...
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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