Auctor Ludens
Essays on Play in Literature
Editors
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.
[Cultura Ludens, 2] 1986. ix, 204 pp.
Publishing status:
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. vii
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Pre-Lude
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From Spells to SpillsGerald Guinness | p. 1
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Superliminal NoteRoger Shattuck | p. 9
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Part I: Authors at Play
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1. Playing with the Audience
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To “Make” an Audience, or a Night's DallianceAndrew Hurley | p. 15
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Brecht and the Scientific Spirit of PlayfulnessMartin Esslin | p. 25
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2. Playing with the Canon
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Hagiographic (Dis)play: Chaucer's “The Miller's Tale,”Katharina Wilson | p. 37
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Playing with Fire and Brimstone: Auctor Ludens, Diabolus LudicrusWilliam D. Lewis | p. 47
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3. Playing with Authorship
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Acts of Willful PlayWalter Isle | p. 63
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The Playful Atoms of Jorge Luis BorgesAlexander Coleman | p. 75
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Inter-Lude
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Play-TranslationsGerald Guinness | p. 91
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Part II: The Games of Literature
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1. Literature as Game of Pleasure
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Amorous Agon, Erotic Flyting: Some Play-Motifs in the Literature of LoveFrank J. Warnke | p. 99
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From Play to Plays: The Folklore of ComedyHarry Levin | p. 113
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Waiting for the Other Shoe: Some Observations on RhymeAndrew Hurley | p. 127
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2. Literature and Role-Playing
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Playing for Life in Donne's Elegies and Songs and SonnetsGerald Guinness | p. 137
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The Games of Consciousness in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,”Mihai Spariosu | p. 157
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3. Literature as Existential Play
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Games for Death and Two MaidensChristopher Clausen | p. 171
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Godot's Games and Beckett's Late PlaysRuby Cohn | p. 183
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Post-Lude | p. 191
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List of Works Cited | p. 195
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Note on Contributors | p. 199
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Index | p. 201
Subjects
Literature & Literary Studies
Main BIC Subject
DSB: Literary studies: general
Main BISAC Subject
LIT000000: LITERARY CRITICISM / General