The Play of the self

Author(s)

• Bogue, Ronald
• Spariosu, Mihai

Bibliographic Information

The Play of the self

edited by Ronald Bogue and Mihai I. Spariosu

（SUNY series, the margins of literature）

State University of New York Press, c1994

• : pbk.

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between play and mimesis in the constitution and dissolution of the individual and social self. The volume is divided into three sections, the first of which focuses on the mimetic-ludic foundations of mind, memory, and desire; the second on the social and psychological self as agent of playful performance and product of cultural codes; and the third on the interplay of psyche, image, and power in literary and artistic representations of the self. The subjects of the individual studies vary widely, from the interrelation of power and play in Orlando Furioso to the ludic foundations of cognition to the concept of the self in Foucault and Deleuze.

Table of Contents

Editors' Foreword Part One: The Thoughtful Self: Mind, Memory, and Desire 1. Foucault, Deleuze, and the Playful Fold of the Self Ronald Bogue 2. Mimesis and Anamnesis: Deconstruction of Metaphysics and Reconstruction of Psyche Cristian Moraru 3. Mind's Mirrors: Some Early Versions of Contemporary Specular Discourse Kent Kraft 4. Concepts of Mimesis in French and German Philosophical and Anthropological Theory Karl Eckhardt Part Two: The Performative Self: Role, Ritual, and Cognition 5. No Escaping Obligation: Erving Goffman on the Demands and Constraints of Play Lori J. Ducharme and Gary Alan Fine 6. Play and Linking Trajectories for Social Origins of Cognition James Deegan and Anthony Pellegrini 7. Redefining the Ludic: Mimesis, Expression, and the Festival Mode Michael J.C. Echeruo 8. Nonsense and Metacommunication: Reflections on Lewis Carroll Gabriele Schwab Part Three: The Expressive Self: Psyche, Image, and Power 9. Power and Play in the Orlando Furioso Giuseppe Mazzotta 10. Dissimulation on Display: The Feint of Power in Campanella's Scelta Thomas Cerbu 11. Orpheus: Nature and Psyche. From Allegory to Symbol in Titian, Rubens, and Poussin Angel Medina and Joyce Medina 12. Body-Bildung in German Classicism Susan Derwin

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Details

• NCID: BA23786215
• ISBN:
  • 0791420795
  • 0791420809
• LCCN: 93043552
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 268 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN56.M536
  • DC20 : 809
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Mimesis in literature
  • LCSH : Self in literature
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA13105479