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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... theater was, as Schiller had called it in his famous essay, "a moral institution." If Brecht, during most of his career, also stressed the ludic nature of the theater, its need to be fun (Spass) and entertainment, he also always ...
... theater was, as Schiller had called it in his famous essay, "a moral institution." If Brecht, during most of his career, also stressed the ludic nature of the theater, its need to be fun (Spass) and entertainment, he also always ...
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... theater remains theater, even when it is didactic theater; and insofar it is good theater, it is amusing.2 There is a touchingly naive, nineteenth-century belief here in the ability of the proletariat to feel its own needs, an almost ...
... theater remains theater, even when it is didactic theater; and insofar it is good theater, it is amusing.2 There is a touchingly naive, nineteenth-century belief here in the ability of the proletariat to feel its own needs, an almost ...
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... theater is wellnigh totally submerged. On the other hand, paradoxically, this attitude underlines and brings into the foreground the purely ludic aspect of drama: the Lehrstuecke are primarily conceived as being for the education of the ...
... theater is wellnigh totally submerged. On the other hand, paradoxically, this attitude underlines and brings into the foreground the purely ludic aspect of drama: the Lehrstuecke are primarily conceived as being for the education of the ...
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... theater, play-acting. It follows that the actual performance of the play becomes secondary; the main emphasis lies on the process of rehearsal. The final performance has value only insofar as it forces the participants to crown the ...
... theater, play-acting. It follows that the actual performance of the play becomes secondary; the main emphasis lies on the process of rehearsal. The final performance has value only insofar as it forces the participants to crown the ...
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... theater, in which he stressed that there were almost a thousand amateur theater groups in that country. He argued that even the spectators, even of bad performances, would learn a good deal. And again he returned to the importance of ...
... theater, in which he stressed that there were almost a thousand amateur theater groups in that country. He argued that even the spectators, even of bad performances, would learn a good deal. And again he returned to the importance of ...
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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