Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France.
Title:
Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France.
Author:
Falaky, Fayçal.
ISBN:
9781684483440
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (217 pages)
Series:
Scènes Francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater Ser.
Contents:
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Playing with Dolls in Old Regime Fairy Tales -- 2. The Morality of Bilboquet, or the Equivocations of Language -- 3. Fiction as Play: Rhetorical Subversion in Alain-René Lesage's Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane -- 4. Playthings of Fortune: Lots, Games of Chance, and Inequality in l'Abbé Prévost -- 5. Boundless Play and Infinite Pleasure in the Chevalier de Béthune's Relation du monde de Mercure -- 6. The Politics of Orientalist Fantasy in French Opera -- 7. Playing at Theater: Modes of Play in Théâtre de Société -- 8. Between Play and Ritual: Profane Masquerade in the French Revolution -- 9. The Return of Play, or the End of Revolutionary Theater -- 10. Video Games as Cultural History: Procedural Narrative and the Eighteenth-Century Fair Theater -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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