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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... reader closest to being "a true creator in his own right" and spills are what pull the curtain aside for that moment necessary for the reader to see that "after all, it is all make-believe." The spell weaves the illusion and the spill ...
... reader closest to being "a true creator in his own right" and spills are what pull the curtain aside for that moment necessary for the reader to see that "after all, it is all make-believe." The spell weaves the illusion and the spill ...
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... reader's "real" world. (lb) The teller must then make the universal appeal, though "universal" may, dangerously, decay into "trite" or, what is fatal, "boring." (2) The reader must be, therefore, seduced into TO "MAKE" AN AUDIENCE, OR A ...
... reader's "real" world. (lb) The teller must then make the universal appeal, though "universal" may, dangerously, decay into "trite" or, what is fatal, "boring." (2) The reader must be, therefore, seduced into TO "MAKE" AN AUDIENCE, OR A ...
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... reader must be, therefore, seduced into cooperating with the performance, and all the teller's art must reach for ... readers. I am assuming that we, like baby bears, must be licked into shape, must in a sense be "made" to be Audience ...
... reader must be, therefore, seduced into cooperating with the performance, and all the teller's art must reach for ... readers. I am assuming that we, like baby bears, must be licked into shape, must in a sense be "made" to be Audience ...
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... reader," stronger by far than Humbert Humbert's "ladies and gentlemen of the jury." It always manages to reach out of the verbal texture of the book and grab us, or embrace us. And it is just another word, in a sense, so that the ...
... reader," stronger by far than Humbert Humbert's "ladies and gentlemen of the jury." It always manages to reach out of the verbal texture of the book and grab us, or embrace us. And it is just another word, in a sense, so that the ...
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... reader will be persuaded. Consider early in the book, the second and third chapters: But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a- whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come. Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet, and ...
... reader will be persuaded. Consider early in the book, the second and third chapters: But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a- whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come. Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet, and ...
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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