Theories of Play and Postmodern Fiction: 3 (Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies)

by Brian Edwards (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $140.14

  Edwards (literary studies, Deakin U.) argues that play is endemic to culture and that it helps to explain the operations of literary texts as cultural productions. He analyzes the forms and styles of play in various postmodernist novels, and particularly in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow , John