Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France

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"Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play-from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself - this volume offers new insights into how play was used to represent and reimagine the world in eighteenth-century France. In documenting various modes of play, contributors...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Falaky, Fayçal, 1977-, McGinnis, Reginald, 1959-, Bloom, Rori, Perras, Jean-Alexandre, Hakim, Zeina, Yamashita, Masano, Mandarino, Erika, Hargrave, Katharine, Comsa, Maria Teodora, Curulla, Annelle
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Bucknell University Press, 2022.
Colección:Scènes francophones.
Temas:
1700-1799
French literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Play in literature.
Games in literature.
Play > Social aspects > France > History > 18th century.
Games > Social aspects > France > History > 18th century.
Littérature française > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Jeu dans la littérature.
Jeu > Aspect social > France > Histoire > 18e siècle.
PERFORMING ARTS / General
French literature
Games in literature
Games > Social aspects
Manners and customs
Play in literature
Play > Social aspects
France > Social life and customs > 18th century.
France > Mœurs et coutumes > 18e siècle.
France
eighteenth-century France, play, games, ludic, playfulness, theater, cultural studies, french, francophone, law, religion, politics, economics, Age of Reason, free will, determinism, Enlightenment France, dolls, bilboquets, lotteries, French Revolution, orientalism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Series Editor
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction / Fayçal Falaky and Reginald McGinnis
  • 1. Playing with Dolls in Old Regime Fairy Tales / Rori Bloom
  • 2. The Morality of Bilboquet, or the Equivocations of Language / Jean-Alexandre Perras
  • 3. Fiction as Play: Rhetorical Subversion in Alain-René Lesage's Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane / Zeina Hakim
  • 4. Playthings of Fortune: Lots, Games of Chance, and Inequality in l'Abbé Prévost / Masano Yamashita
  • 5. Boundless Play and Infinite Pleasure in the Chevalier de Béthune's Relation du monde de Mercure / Erika Mandarino
  • 6. The Politics of Orientalist Fantasy in French Opera / Katharine Hargrave
  • 7. Playing at Theater: Modes of Play in Théâtre de Sociét / Maria Teodora Comsa
  • 8. Between Play and Ritual: Profane Masquerade in the French Revolution / Annelle Curulla
  • 9. The Return of Play, or the End of Revolutionary Theater / Yann Robert
  • 10. Video Games as Cultural History: Procedural Narrative and the Eighteenth-Century Fair Theater / Jeffrey M. Leichman
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index.

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