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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Contents
Authors at Play | 1 |
Brecht and the Scientific Spirit of Playfulness | 25 |
Chaucers The Millers Tale | 37 |
Auctor Ludens | 47 |
Acts of Willful Play by Walter Isle 33 | 75 |
PlayTranslations edited by Gerald Guinness 16 | 91 |
Literature of Love by Frank Warnke 99 66 | 99 |
The Folklore of Comedy | 113 |
Some Observations on Rhyme | 127 |
Playing for Life in Donnes Elegies and Songs | 137 |
The Games of Consciousness in The Love Song | 157 |
Games for Death and Two Maidens | 171 |
Godots Games and Becketts Late Plays | 183 |
PostLude | 191 |
Note on Contributors | 199 |
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