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Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century France.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Scènes Francophones: Studies in French and Francophone Theater SeriesPublisher: New Brunswick : Bucknell University Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781684483440
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modes of Play in Eighteenth-Century FranceDDC classification:
  • 840.9357909033
LOC classification:
  • PQ265
Online resources:
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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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