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 vii
... sense "playful"; in between come widely varying expressions of ludic energy and "performance." Play, in other words, may be interpreted as anything from surface ornamentation to the essential component of any creative activity ...
... sense "playful"; in between come widely varying expressions of ludic energy and "performance." Play, in other words, may be interpreted as anything from surface ornamentation to the essential component of any creative activity ...
Page viii
... sense of authorial intention to set against deconstructional indeterminacy; or focusing attention on surfaces, and so away from psychoanalytic (or any other) searches for "latent meaning"; or highlighting the irreducibly anarchic ...
... sense of authorial intention to set against deconstructional indeterminacy; or focusing attention on surfaces, and so away from psychoanalytic (or any other) searches for "latent meaning"; or highlighting the irreducibly anarchic ...
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... sense of "life"?), entailed a deep sense of seriousness at times bordering on the religious. Such an appeal to seriousness in life and art was of course largely what constituted Dr. Leavis' extraordinary appeal. Here at last was someone ...
... sense of "life"?), entailed a deep sense of seriousness at times bordering on the religious. Such an appeal to seriousness in life and art was of course largely what constituted Dr. Leavis' extraordinary appeal. Here at last was someone ...
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... sense of increased possibility, to have headed off in another directionbut this time with Sancho Panza aboard, or with a second and more interesting Jaques who can assume a greater share of the play's total meaning. Michelangelo's late ...
... sense of increased possibility, to have headed off in another directionbut this time with Sancho Panza aboard, or with a second and more interesting Jaques who can assume a greater share of the play's total meaning. Michelangelo's late ...
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... sense, but before I return to this possibility I must emphasize that there are times when demonstrably this is not the case, as the context of Nabokov's homily to his students illustrates very well. For as he told his students on ...
... sense, but before I return to this possibility I must emphasize that there are times when demonstrably this is not the case, as the context of Nabokov's homily to his students illustrates very well. For as he told his students on ...
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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