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Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France (Paperback) Loot Price: R938
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Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France (Paperback): Faycal Falaky, Reginald McGinnis

Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France (Paperback)

Faycal Falaky, Reginald McGinnis; Rori Bloom, Jean-Alexandre Perras, Zeina Hakim, Masano Yamashita, Erika Mandarino, Katharine Hargrave, Maria Teodora Comsa, Annelle Curulla

Series: Scenes francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater

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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 theorize its relation to law, religion, politics, and economics. Equally important was the role of 'play' in plays, and the function of theatrical performance in mirroring, and often contesting, our place in the universe. These essays remind us that the spirit of play was very much alive during the 'Age of Reason,' providing ways for its practitioners to consider more 'serious' themes such as free will and determinism, illusions and equivocations, or chance and inequality. Standing at the intersection of multiple intellectual avenues, this is the first comprehensive study in English devoted to the different guises of play in Enlightenment France, certain to interest curious readers across disciplinary backgrounds.

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Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Scenes francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater
Release date: November 2021
Editors: Faycal Falaky • Reginald McGinnis
Authors: Rori Bloom • Jean-Alexandre Perras • Zeina Hakim • Masano Yamashita • Erika Mandarino • Katharine Hargrave • Maria Teodora Comsa • Annelle Curulla
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 978-1-68448-340-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 1-68448-340-9
Barcode: 9781684483402

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