Lector Ludens

Author : Michael Scham
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442617407

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'Lector Ludens' by Michael Scham Pdf

In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With Lector Ludens, Michael Scham uses Cervantes’s Don Quijote and Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging from cards and dice to hunting, attending the theater, and reading fiction. Shifting fluidly between modern theories of play, little-known Spanish treatises on leisure and games, and the evidence in Cervantes’s own works, Scham illuminates Cervantes’s intense fascination with games, play, and leisure, as well as the tensions in early modern Spain between the stern moralizing of the Counter-Reformation and the playfulness of Renaissance humanism.

Author : Caroline Baird
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030508579

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Games and Gaming in Early Modern Drama by Caroline Baird Pdf

This book is a close taxonomic study of the pivotal role of games in early modern drama. The presence of the game motif has often been noticed, but this study, the most comprehensive of its kind, shows how games operate in more complex ways than simple metaphor and can be syntheses of emblem and dramatic device. Drawing on seventeenth-century treatises, including Francis Willughby’s Book of Games, which only became available in print in 2003, and divided into chapters on Dice, Cards, Tables (Backgammon), and Chess, the book brings back into focus the symbolism and divinatory origins of games. The work of more than ten dramatists is analysed, from the Shakespeare and Middleton canon to rarer plays such as The Spanish Curate, The Two Angry Women of Abington and The Cittie Gallant. Games and theatre share common ground in terms of performance, deceit, plotting, risk and chance, and the early modern playhouse provided apt conditions for vicarious play. From the romantic chase to the financial gamble, and in legal contest and war, the twenty-first century is still engaging the game. With its extensive appendices, the book will appeal to readers interested in period games and those teaching or studying early modern drama, including theatre producers, and awareness of the vocabulary of period games will allow further references to be understood in non-dramatic texts.

Author : William H. Clamurro
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739193488

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Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares by William H. Clamurro Pdf

Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares: Reading their Lessons from His Time to Ours offers a fresh approach to the Novelas ejemplares (1613) of Cervantes in which the twelve novelas are not analyzed individually nor on the basis of generic definitions but rather from a thematic perspective. In this way, certain pertinent themes and problems are explored by grouping the relevant novelas as they dramatize these problems, often leaving the reader with unresolved “conclusions,” and in other instances offering an affirmative solution. The issues examined include the ironies and injustices of social class, the problem of honra and justice, the complex hostilities and interactions of distinct cultures, and the problem of finding a seventeenth-century work of fiction relevant and stimulating to the twenty-first-century reader.

Author : Esther Fernández,Adrienne L. Martin
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487538934

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Drawing the Curtain by Esther Fernández,Adrienne L. Martin Pdf

Miguel de Cervantes’s experimentation with theatricality is frequently tied to the notion of revelation and disclosure of hidden truths. Drawing the Curtain showcases the elements of theatricality that characterize Cervantes’s prose and analyses the ways in which he uses theatricality in his own literary production. Bringing together the works of well-known scholars, who draw from a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches, this collection demonstrates how Cervantes exploits revelation and disclosure to create dynamic dramatic moments that surprise and engage observers and readers. Hewing closely to Peter Brook’s notion of the bare or empty stage, Esther Fernández and Adrienne L. Martín argue that Cervantes’s omnipresent concern with theatricality manifests not only in his drama but also in the myriad metatheatrical instances dispersed throughout his prose works. In doing so, Drawing the Curtain sheds light on the ways in which Cervantes forces his readers to engage with themes that are central to his life and works, including love, freedom, truth, confinement, and otherness.

Author : Shannon Scott Clute,Richard L. Edwards
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781611681857

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The Maltese Touch of Evil by Shannon Scott Clute,Richard L. Edwards Pdf

Part thinking-man's fan crush, part crazily inspired remix of the most beloved of film genres, this book will force scholars and film lovers alike to view film noir afresh

Author : Astrid Ensslin
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262322041

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Literary Gaming by Astrid Ensslin Pdf

A new analytical framework for understanding literary videogames, the literary-ludic spectrum, illustrated by close readings of selected works. In this book, Astrid Ensslin examines literary videogames—hybrid digital artifacts that have elements of both games and literature, combining the ludic and the literary. These works can be considered verbal art in the broadest sense (in that language plays a significant part in their aesthetic appeal); they draw on game mechanics; and they are digital-born, dependent on a digital medium (unlike, for example, conventional books read on e-readers). They employ narrative, dramatic, and poetic techniques in order to explore the affordances and limitations of ludic structures and processes, and they are designed to make players reflect on conventional game characteristics. Ensslin approaches these hybrid works as a new form of experimental literary art that requires novel ways of playing and reading. She proposes a systematic method for analyzing literary-ludic (L-L) texts that takes into account the analytic concerns of both literary stylistics and ludology. After establishing the theoretical underpinnings of her proposal, Ensslin introduces the L-L spectrum as an analytical framework for literary games. Based on the phenomenological distinction between deep and hyper attention, the L-L spectrum charts a work's relative emphases on reading and gameplay. Ensslin applies this analytical toolkit to close readings of selected works, moving from the predominantly literary to the primarily ludic, from online hypermedia fiction to Flash fiction to interactive fiction to poetry games to a highly designed literary “auteur” game. Finally, she considers her innovative analytical methodology in the context of contemporary ludology, media studies, and literary discourse analysis.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : French literature
ISBN : UVA:X006059138

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Nineteenth-century French Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Warren F. Motte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X004222359

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Oulipo by Warren F. Motte Pdf

The literary group known as Oulipo, was founded in Paris in 1960 to pursue writing in a way that contrasts strongly with the Anglo-American tradition. The examples included in this collection all display some form of literary constraint.

Author : Marjorie Curry Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39076002863442

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Classroom Commentaries by Marjorie Curry Woods Pdf

With an unusually broad scope encompassing how Europeans taught and learned reading and writing at all levels, Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria Nova across Medieval and Renaissance Europe provides a synoptic picture of medieval and early modern instruction in rhetoric, poetics, and composition theory and practice. As Marjorie Curry Woods convincingly argues, the decision of Geoffrey of Vinsauf (fl. 1200) to write his rhetorical treatise in verse resulted in a unique combination of rhetorical doctrine, poetic examples, and creative exercises that proved malleable enough to inspire teachers for three centuries. Based on decades of research, this book excerpts, translates, and analyzes teachers' notes and commentaries in the more than two hundred extant manuscripts of the text. We learn the reasons for the popularity of the Poetria nova among medieval and early Renaissance teachers, how prose as well as verse genres were taught, why the Poetria nova was a required text in central European universities, its attractions for early modern scholars and historians, and how we might still learn from it today. Woods' monumental achievement will allow modern scholars to see the Poetria nova as earlier Europeans did: a witty and perennially popular text central to the experience of almost every student.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : College prose, American
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Honors Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Instituut voor Dialectologie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Dutch language
ISBN : UOM:39015067489198

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Leuven contributions in linguistics and philology by Instituut voor Dialectologie Pdf

Author : Fritz Senn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015010530064

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Joyce's Dislocutions by Fritz Senn Pdf

Author : David Markson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015038154020

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Reader's Block by David Markson Pdf

"Hypnotic . . . a profoundly rewarding read." Kurt Vonnegut

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : French literature
ISBN : UVA:X002128285

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L'Esprit Créateur by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : IND:30000115665535

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Compar(a)ison by Anonim Pdf

An International journal of comparative literature.