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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Page 9
... reality (a word I shall henceforth have to dismiss), they manifest the final stage of 'Pataphysics practiced unconsciously before it mutates into the higher, conscious stage. Such events as these reveal the desperate measures of men ...
... reality (a word I shall henceforth have to dismiss), they manifest the final stage of 'Pataphysics practiced unconsciously before it mutates into the higher, conscious stage. Such events as these reveal the desperate measures of men ...
Page 12
... reality conformed to it. The idea of "truth" is the most imaginary of all solutions. 4. For 'Pataphysics, all things are equal. The pataphysician not only accepts no final scientific explanation of the universe, he also looks askance at ...
... reality conformed to it. The idea of "truth" is the most imaginary of all solutions. 4. For 'Pataphysics, all things are equal. The pataphysician not only accepts no final scientific explanation of the universe, he also looks askance at ...
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... reality, it produces these three-dimensional representations of society, capable of influencing society, wholly in the spirit of playfulness: for the builders of society it exhibits the experience of society, present as well as past, in ...
... reality, it produces these three-dimensional representations of society, capable of influencing society, wholly in the spirit of playfulness: for the builders of society it exhibits the experience of society, present as well as past, in ...
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... reality the politicians ought to be philosophers and the philosophers politicians. Between true philosophy and true politics there is no difference. From this insight there follows the thinking man's proposal to educate young people by ...
... reality the politicians ought to be philosophers and the philosophers politicians. Between true philosophy and true politics there is no difference. From this insight there follows the thinking man's proposal to educate young people by ...
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... reality, but merely in a conventionalized, 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 ...
... reality, but merely in a conventionalized, 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 ...
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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