Book
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
Auctor Ludens
Essays on Play in Literature
-
Edited by:
Gerald Guinness
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
1986
About this book
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.
Topics
-
Download PDFPublicly Available
Prelim pages
i -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Table of contents
v -
Download PDFPublicly Available
Preface
vii - Pre-Lude
-
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
From Spells to Spills
1 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Superliminal Note
9 - Part I: Authors at Play
- 1. Playing with the Audience
-
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
To “Make” an Audience, or a Night's Dalliance
15 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Brecht and the Scientific Spirit of Playfulness
25 - 2. Playing with the Canon
-
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Hagiographic (Dis)play
37 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Playing with Fire and Brimstone
47 - 3. Playing with Authorship
-
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Acts of Willful Play
63 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Playful Atoms of Jorge Luis Borges
75 - Inter-Lude
-
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Play-Translations
91 - Part II: The Games of Literature
- 1. Literature as Game of Pleasure
-
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Amorous Agon, Erotic Flyting
99 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
From Play to Plays
113 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Waiting for the Other Shoe
127 - 2. Literature and Role-Playing
-
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Playing for Life in Donne's Elegies and Songs and Sonnets
137 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
The Games of Consciousness in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,”
157 - 3. Literature as Existential Play
-
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Games for Death and Two Maidens
171 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Godot's Games and Beckett's Late Plays
183 - Post-Lude
-
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Afterword
191 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
List of Works Cited
195 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Note on Contributors
199 -
Requires Authentication UnlicensedLicensed
Index
201
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
December 19, 2011
eBook ISBN:
9789027279422
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
204
eBook ISBN:
9789027279422
Keywords for this book
Theoretical literature & literary studies
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
