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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Otros Autores: Curulla, Annelle, Comsa, Maria Teodora, Hargrave, Katharine, Mandarino, Erika, Yamashita, Masano, Hakim, Zeina, Perras, Jean-Alexandre, Bloom, Rori, McGinnis, Reginald, 1959-, Falaky, Fayçal, 1977-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Bucknell University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Play > Social aspects.
Play in literature.
Manners and customs.
Games > Social aspects.
Games in literature.
French literature.
PERFORMING ARTS / General
Jeu > Aspect social > France > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Jeu dans la litterature.
Litterature française > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Games > Social aspects > France > History > 18th century.
Play > Social aspects > France > History > 18th century.
French literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
France.
France > Moeurs et coutumes > 18e siecle.
France > Social life and customs > 18th century.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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-Rene Lesage's Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane / Zeina Hakim
  • 4. Playthings of Fortune: Lots, Games of Chance, and Inequality in l'Abbe Prevost / Masano Yamashita
  • 5. Boundless Play and Infinite Pleasure in the Chevalier de Bethune'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 Theâtre de Societ / 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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