Theories Of Play And Postmodern Fiction

Author : Brian Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134825585

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Theories of Play and Postmodern Fiction by Brian Edwards Pdf

Drawing on developments in critical theory and postmodernist fiction, this study makes an important contribution to the appreciation of playforms in language, texts, and cultural practices. Tracing trajectories in theories of play and game, and with particular attention to the writings of Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, and Derrida, the author argues that the concept of play provides perspectives on language and communication processes useful both for analysis of literary texts and also for understanding the interactive nature of constructions of knowledge Exploring manifestations of game and play throughout the history of Western culture, from Plato to Pynchon, this study traces developments in 20th-century cultural and literary theory of ideas about play in the writings of Johan Huizinga, Roger Caillois, Jacques Ehrmann, Bernard Suits, James Hans, Mihai Spariosu and Robert Rawdon Wilson. The author emphasizes post-structuralist developments with specific attention to deconstruction and reception theory and argues that deconstruction makes the most significant recent contribution to play theory in its application to language and to literature The work also explores the modes and effects of playforms in particular examples of postmodernist fiction. With attention to major works from Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow), John Barth (LETTERS , Robert Kroetsch (What the Crow Said ), Angela Carter (Nights at the Circus ) and Peter Carey (Illywhacker ), Edwards acknowledges and deconstructs such basic oppositions as play and seriousness, fiction and truth, difference and identity to explore the literature's cultural/political significance. Seeking to affirm the fiction's continuing social relevance, the readings presented in this book place play irresistibly at the heartland of language, meaning and culture.

Author : Brian Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134825653

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Theories of Play and Postmodern Fiction by Brian Edwards Pdf

Drawing on developments in critical theory and postmodernist fiction, this study makes an important contribution to the appreciation of playforms in language, texts, and cultural practices. Tracing trajectories in theories of play and game, and with particular attention to the writings of Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Bakhtin, and Derrida, the author argues that the concept of play provides perspectives on language and communication processes useful both for analysis of literary texts and also for understanding the interactive nature of constructions of knowledge Exploring manifestations of game and play throughout the history of Western culture, from Plato to Pynchon, this study traces developments in 20th-century cultural and literary theory of ideas about play in the writings of Johan Huizinga, Roger Caillois, Jacques Ehrmann, Bernard Suits, James Hans, Mihai Spariosu and Robert Rawdon Wilson. The author emphasizes post-structuralist developments with specific attention to deconstruction and reception theory and argues that deconstruction makes the most significant recent contribution to play theory in its application to language and to literature The work also explores the modes and effects of playforms in particular examples of postmodernist fiction. With attention to major works from Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow), John Barth (LETTERS , Robert Kroetsch (What the Crow Said ), Angela Carter (Nights at the Circus ) and Peter Carey (Illywhacker ), Edwards acknowledges and deconstructs such basic oppositions as play and seriousness, fiction and truth, difference and identity to explore the literature's cultural/political significance. Seeking to affirm the fiction's continuing social relevance, the readings presented in this book place play irresistibly at the heartland of language, meaning and culture.

Author : Gordon Slethaug
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0809318415

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The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction by Gordon Slethaug Pdf

In The Hawkline Monster, Brautigan's minimalist metafictive parody of the double depicts our narcissistic view of reality. In Double or Nothing, Federman subverts the conventional double, exposing its gamelike structures and traditional views of life and text.

Author : Serina Patterson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137497529

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Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature by Serina Patterson Pdf

The first-of-its-kind, Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. Chapters span from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover England, France, Denmark, Poland, and Spain, re-examining medieval games in diverse social settings such as the church, court, and household.

Author : M. Hughes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781137329226

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The Move Beyond Form by M. Hughes Pdf

Fictional narratives of the late twentieth century often cross boundaries. This study argues that the undoing of structure in postmodern art form demands a different way of thinking and represents a commentary on the material and social conditions of the late twentieth century and beyond.

Author : Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak,Irena Barbara Kalla
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030677008

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Children’s Literature and Intergenerational Relationships by Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak,Irena Barbara Kalla Pdf

Children’s Literature and Intergenerational Relationships: Encounters of the Playful Kind explores ways in which children’s literature becomes the object and catalyst of play that brings younger and older generations closer to one another. Providing examples from diverse cultural and historical contexts, this collection argues that children’s texts promote intergenerational play through the use of literary devices and graphic formats and that they may prompt joint play practices in the real world. The book offers a distinctive contribution to children’s literature scholarship by shifting critical attention away from the difference and conflict between children and adults to the exploration of inter-age interdependencies as equally crucial aspects of human life, presenting a new perspective for all who research and work with children’s culture in times of global aging.

Author : Carolyn P. Collette
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843840715

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The Legend of Good Women by Carolyn P. Collette Pdf

Essays re-examining the Legend of Good Women, placing it in its cultural and historical context.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401204842

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The Play within the Play by Anonim Pdf

The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic of the play within the play. The authors explore the wide range of aesthetic, literary-theoretical and philosophical issues associated with this rhetorical device, not only in terms of its original meta-theatrical setting – from the baroque idea of a theatrum mundi onward to contemporary examples of postmodern self-referential dramaturgy – but also with regard to a variety of different generic applications, e.g. in narrative fiction, musical theatre and film. The authors, internationally recognized specialists in their respective fields, draw on recent debates in such areas as postcolonial studies, game and systems theories, media and performance studies, to analyze the specific qualities and characteristics of the play within the play: as ultimate affirmation of the ‘self’ (the ‘Hamlet paradigm’), as a self-reflective agency of meta-theatrical discourse, and as a vehicle of intermedial and intercultural transformation. The challenging study, with its underlying premise of play as a key feature of cultural anthropology and human creativity, breaks new ground by placing the play within the play at the centre of a number of intersecting scholarly discourses on areas of topical concern to scholars in the humanities.

Author : Marija Krsteva
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781000832235

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Towards a Theory of Life-Writing by Marija Krsteva Pdf

Towards a Theory of Life-Writing: Genre Blending provides a look into the rules of life-writing genre blending proposing a theory to explain and illustrate the main regulations governing such genre play. It centers on fact and fiction duality in the formation of auto/biofictional genres. This book investigates the existing developments in this field, and explores major criticism and lines of inquiry in order to arrive at the theory of life-writing genre play textuality. The specific interplay of the different generic characteristics develops a specific textuality at the heart of it. This is termed biofictional preservation (biopreservation) to explain the textual transformation and the shaping of the auto/biofictional genres. Written for undergraduate and graduate students, but also for the general readers, the book further exemplifies the theory in the analyses of different biofictions about the American authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway featuring overlapping and juxtaposed material. This volume aims to provide a theory of this specific textuality in order to better understand and approach the process in question as well as to open up new horizons for further study and exploration.

Author : Ruth Ellen Eileen Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCR:31210005372279

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The Game of Poetics by Ruth Ellen Eileen Burke Pdf

Author : Fabienne C. Quennet
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 3825855988

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Where "Indians" Fear to Tread? by Fabienne C. Quennet Pdf

The two fields of contemporary Native American literature and culture exist in the tension between two literary traditions: the Native oral and literary tradition and the modern Western mainstream literary influence. In her North Dakota quartet Love Medicine (1984), The Beet Queen (1986), Tracks (1988), The Bingo Palace (1994), Native American mixedblood author, Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) exemplifies where and how these traditions meet and interact. A postmodern reading of the quartet shows that Native American authors and literary critics alike need not be afraid to tread into postmodernism, since an interpretation from this perspective opens up the possibility of freeing Native American literature from the limiting label of "ethnic or minority literature" and of establishing it as a vital part of American literature. This postmodern interpretation of Louise Erdrich's quartet offers a discussion of the theoretical issues involved in the context of ethnic writing and its relation to postmodernism, as well as an analysis of her intricate narrative strategies, in particular, her use of multiple perspectives and of intertextual techniques. The main part of the interpretation consists of a reading of postmodern concepts such as magical realism, carnivalesque humor, the relationship between reader and text, gender roles and sexual identities, history and textuality, the trickster figure, and games and chance as can be found in Louise Erdrich's North Dakota quartet.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : UOM:39015073503974

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Canadian Review of Comparative Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Johnston
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512806427

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Carnival of Repetition by John Johnston Pdf

Although published many decades ago, William Gaddis's The Recognitions is only now beginning to receive the critical attention it deserves. Carnival of Repetition, the first full-length study of the novel, is a sophisticated analysis that places it in a new literary and cultural context . This novel of the 1950 s is unlike anything else from that decade. It harks back to the works of high modernism (exemplified by Joyce's Ulysses) and looks forward to postmodern fiction (especially as practiced by Barth, Pynchon, and DeLillo). Imitation is its major theme, one that Gaddis pursues on many levels, across several continents, into mazes of arcane knowledge and bogus scholarship, and even into the novel's structure through the repetition of prior texts and the interplay between literal and disguised quotation. Through an endless play of repetition, Gaddis con­founds the reader's recognition of similarity and difference. Johnston uses the theories of Bakhtin and Deleuze (and others, such as Julia Kristeva) to map out a context for this most unusual and difficult work. From Bakhtin, he appropriates the concepts of "carnivalesque" fiction and dialogism (or a plurality of independent voices, no one more important than another). From Deleuze, he borrows the idea of the simulacrum, a copy that presupposes no original and that becomes meaningful through a process of infinite repetition. With these instruments, Johnston analyzes the labyrinth of copy and counterfeit that Gaddis constructs in his novel.

Author : Albert Rouzie
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015060655068

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At Play in the Fields of Writing by Albert Rouzie Pdf

Serio-ludic rhetoric defines play with language and images as a synthesis of work and play that is rhetorically productive, can help overcome student alienation, and can help heal the split between rhetoric and poetic in English studies. The book explores this concept through analysis of student and instructor electronic projects and synchronous discussion conferences, demonstrating that serio-ludic discourse is often creative, productive, and rhetorically invigorating. At Play in the Fields of Writing offers a vision of the writing classroom that can help instructors find ways of making a place for productive play in their courses and professional lives."--Jacket.

Author : René Reinhold Schallegger
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476631462

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The Postmodern Joy of Role-Playing Games by René Reinhold Schallegger Pdf

Historian Johan Huizinga once described game playing as the motor of humanity’s cultural development, predating art and literature. Since the late 20th century, Western society has undergone a “ludification,” as the influence of game-playing has grown ever more prevalent. At the same time, new theories of postmodernism have emphasized the importance of interactive, playful behavior. Core concepts of postmodernism are evident in pen-and-paper role-playing, such as Dungeons and Dragons. Exploring the interrelationships among narrative, gameplay, players and society, the author raises questions regarding authority, agency and responsibility, and discusses the social potential of RPGs in the 21st century.