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Ludic Fictions, Lucid Games: Playing Hopscotch With Julio Cortázar (Toward A Theory Of Literary Play)

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Year: 2019, 2019
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Campbell, Lee Dylan, Thesis advisor (ths): Mitchell, Liam, Thesis advisor (ths): De Zwaan, Victoria, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This thesis elucidates the role of play and games—the ludic—in Julio Cortázar's novel Hopscotch (1966; translation of Rayuela, 1963) through a range of resonant theories. Literary gameplay dominates the formal, linguistic, affective, reflexive, and thematic dimensions of Hopscotch, which are analyzed through concepts borrowed from play theorist Roger Caillois, among others, and… more
Full Text:               LUDIC  FICTIONS,  LUCID  GAMES:     PLAYING  HOPSCOTCH  WITH  JULIO  CORTÁZAR     (TOWARD  A  THEORY  OF  LITERARY  PLAY)       A  Thesis  Submitted  to  the  Committee  on  Graduate  Studies     in  Partial  Fulfillment  of  the …