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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... story, a clever young woman vowed to save the kingdom, save other young women, save herself, and save their king from a maddening psycho-sexual wound. Their child, after 1001 nights, was evidence of the multiple cure; the stories, 1001 ...
... story, a clever young woman vowed to save the kingdom, save other young women, save herself, and save their king from a maddening psycho-sexual wound. Their child, after 1001 nights, was evidence of the multiple cure; the stories, 1001 ...
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... story of his encounter (if it can be called that) with the officer, we see the range of the Underground Man's inventiveness: I was standing by the billiard table, inadvertently blocking the officer's way. He grabbed me by the shoulders ...
... story of his encounter (if it can be called that) with the officer, we see the range of the Underground Man's inventiveness: I was standing by the billiard table, inadvertently blocking the officer's way. He grabbed me by the shoulders ...
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... story....But at that time, exposés weren't in vogue yet, and my manuscript was rejected....Finally, I decided to challenge him to a duel. I wrote him a beautiful letter pleading with him to apologize to me. And...hinted quite obviously ...
... story....But at that time, exposés weren't in vogue yet, and my manuscript was rejected....Finally, I decided to challenge him to a duel. I wrote him a beautiful letter pleading with him to apologize to me. And...hinted quite obviously ...
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... story"--not the sort of thing likely to keep us up all night to see what happens next; moreover, he tells the story in such a rambling, forgetful, back-and-forth way that we must knit it up for ourselves out of his tangled skein. And ...
... story"--not the sort of thing likely to keep us up all night to see what happens next; moreover, he tells the story in such a rambling, forgetful, back-and-forth way that we must knit it up for ourselves out of his tangled skein. And ...
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Contents
1 | |
9 | |
15 | |
15 | |
37 | |
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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