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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... listeners incredulous turns and says, "Isn't that true? Tell them I'm not exaggerating." We are not the social-worker that the Underground Man sometimes demands, nor the jury that Humbert Humbert wants, and TO "MAKE" AN AUDIENCE 21.
... listeners incredulous turns and says, "Isn't that true? Tell them I'm not exaggerating." We are not the social-worker that the Underground Man sometimes demands, nor the jury that Humbert Humbert wants, and TO "MAKE" AN AUDIENCE 21.
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... have been committed by any other party worker, each of the four agitators in turn enacts the part of The Young Comrade in one of the four episodes in which he had sinned. The performance of The Measures Taken in front 28 ESSLIN.
... have been committed by any other party worker, each of the four agitators in turn enacts the part of The Young Comrade in one of the four episodes in which he had sinned. The performance of The Measures Taken in front 28 ESSLIN.
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... turn, so that the victim can also feel what it is like to be the executioner, and the executioner experiences what ... turns in playing cowboys and Indians, parents and children. Brecht was well aware that a theory of drama which ...
... turn, so that the victim can also feel what it is like to be the executioner, and the executioner experiences what ... turns in playing cowboys and Indians, parents and children. Brecht was well aware that a theory of drama which ...
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... turn of mind that in his practice of theater he could combine the utmost freedom and spontaneity of method with the most rigorous adherence to rigid patterns, once they had been established. Of his work as a director in his own theater ...
... turn of mind that in his practice of theater he could combine the utmost freedom and spontaneity of method with the most rigorous adherence to rigid patterns, once they had been established. Of his work as a director in his own theater ...
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Contents
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9 | |
15 | |
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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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