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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... Role-Playing Playing for Life in Donne's Elegies and Songs and Sonnets, by Gerald Guinness The Games of Consciousness in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by Mihai Spariosu Literature as Existential Play Games for Death and Two ...
... Role-Playing Playing for Life in Donne's Elegies and Songs and Sonnets, by Gerald Guinness The Games of Consciousness in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by Mihai Spariosu Literature as Existential Play Games for Death and Two ...
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... role of analysis is to dismantle the structure so that its wooden or steel frame, or rubble carcass, becomes perceptible. Hence the importance given to irony and structural complexity in Leavisian analysis; for they are what tell us ...
... role of analysis is to dismantle the structure so that its wooden or steel frame, or rubble carcass, becomes perceptible. Hence the importance given to irony and structural complexity in Leavisian analysis; for they are what tell us ...
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... role in society. 'Pataphysics preaches no rebellion and no acquiescence, no new morality nor immorality, no political reform nor reaction and certainly no promise of happiness nor unhappiness. What would be the use, all things being ...
... role in society. 'Pataphysics preaches no rebellion and no acquiescence, no new morality nor immorality, no political reform nor reaction and certainly no promise of happiness nor unhappiness. What would be the use, all things being ...
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... role of deviation and chance in atomic happenings, creeps frequently enough into Sartre's writing to arouse suspicion. Could L'Etre et le Néant (see pp. 471 and 529; also "Réponse à Albert Camus" in Les Temps Modernes) amount to a ...
... role of deviation and chance in atomic happenings, creeps frequently enough into Sartre's writing to arouse suspicion. Could L'Etre et le Néant (see pp. 471 and 529; also "Réponse à Albert Camus" in Les Temps Modernes) amount to a ...
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... role, but the Underground Man has a kind of dialogue, a very physical and almost entirely imaginary dialogue, with him that is indicative of his notion of and approach to audience throughout the novel. Because of his curious ...
... role, but the Underground Man has a kind of dialogue, a very physical and almost entirely imaginary dialogue, with him that is indicative of his notion of and approach to audience throughout the novel. Because of his curious ...
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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