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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... words, we gave our contributors free rein to discuss whatsoever aspect of literary play caught their fancy, without briefing them in advance about what "play" was (something we weren't always sure we knew ourselves!) or where they ...
... words, we gave our contributors free rein to discuss whatsoever aspect of literary play caught their fancy, without briefing them in advance about what "play" was (something we weren't always sure we knew ourselves!) or where they ...
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... word, play—are also elements of our moral universe and that individuals can realize that world through relaxation and gratuitous energy as well as through concentration and directed effort. In other words, forget the container and lick ...
... word, play—are also elements of our moral universe and that individuals can realize that world through relaxation and gratuitous energy as well as through concentration and directed effort. In other words, forget the container and lick ...
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... word for the appetite that drives the executant on to play—and the auditor to listen—well, and spills for the sense of occasion (and chance of a spill) that keeps both executant and listener on the edges of their seats. So that would be ...
... word for the appetite that drives the executant on to play—and the auditor to listen—well, and spills for the sense of occasion (and chance of a spill) that keeps both executant and listener on the edges of their seats. So that would be ...
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... Words and Creativity (New York, 1976), pp. 16ff. 3The Great Tradition, p. 2. 4Ibid., p. 19. 5Leavis of course changed his mind about Dickens, not because he learnt to concede more to play but rather because later readings uncovered more ...
... Words and Creativity (New York, 1976), pp. 16ff. 3The Great Tradition, p. 2. 4Ibid., p. 19. 5Leavis of course changed his mind about Dickens, not because he learnt to concede more to play but rather because later readings uncovered more ...
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... word like "unicorn" or "hermaphrodite"--any outlandish word agreed upon beforehand among the players. The point is to say it first and without it sounding forced. One admires these poor men of state trying to brighten a bleak life of ...
... word like "unicorn" or "hermaphrodite"--any outlandish word agreed upon beforehand among the players. The point is to say it first and without it sounding forced. One admires these poor men of state trying to brighten a bleak life 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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