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Games in literature --- Games --- Spanish literature

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Games in literature --- Jeux dans la littérature

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Play in literature --- Games in literature --- Recreation in literature --- Italian literature --- History and criticism --- Congresses

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The European Research Council project ('Locus Ludi'. The Cultural Fabric of Play and Games in Classical Antiquity [ERC AdG # 741520]) investigates how play and games provide a privileged access to past societal norms, values, identities, and collective imaginary. People play all over the world and throughout history, but they do not play the same games, nor do they attribute the same meaning and function to play. This pluridisciplinary volume investigates how such an important part of ancient cultures can be methodologically reconstructed. A first series of chapters based on Greek and Roman texts and vocabulary propose an emic definition of play and games. Beyond the common association of child and play (in Greek, paidia, 'play', pais, 'child', and paideia, 'education', share the same root, in Latin ludus means 'play', 'school', and 'rethorical games'), ancient views are more complex and nuanced. The boundaries between sport, dance, rites and play are fluid and differ from our modern view. Case studies show how playful practices can be defined in material culture and iconographic representations. The second part of the volume focuses on Greek and Roman ludic heritage in ancient literature with particular attention to the cultural and discursive codes according to literary genre (oniromancy, proverbs, children's rhymes, lexicography...). Close studies assess the transmission of a predominantly oral heritage in collections, lexicons and commentaries ranging from the Roman imperial period to Byzantine times (proverbs, riddles, and children's lore). New insights are provided on crucial issues about cultural continuities and discontinuities, as well as the definition of so-called "traditional" games.

Games --- Games in literature --- Social aspects --- Symbolic aspects --- Greece --- Rome --- Civilization --- Jeu --- Civilisation antique. --- Civilisation antique

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Cette réflexion collective porte des ambitions comparatistes. Il s'agit d'analyser les relations entre le divertissement collectif et les dynamiques du savoir culturel dans leur contexte européen. Les essais ici réunis offrent une interrogation sur les jeux et les enjeux du savoir tant en France, qu'en Italie, en Angleterre, en Allemagne et en Russie. Ils permettent aussi d'analyser les adaptations polémiques des modèles étrangers - et ceci dans une démarche diachronique couvrant une période de cinq cents ans, depuis le XVe jusqu'au XIXe siècle. L'enchevêtrement du sérieux et du burlesque, du spontané et du réglé, du normatif et du subversif dans les foyers des savoirs culturels soulève plusieurs questions. Serait-il possible de brouiller l'opposition entre "homo studiosus" et "homo ludens" pour cerner un mode spécifique de savoir qui serait un savoir ludique, ancré dans un divertissement collecitf et complémentaire du savoir sérieux ? Quelles valeurs épistémologiques recèle un tel savoir ? Quel est le rôle de la sociabilité ludique dans le processus de l'institutionnalisation de la communication littéraire, scientifique ou politique ? Quelles fonctions remplit le jeu dans la constitution de discours normatifs visant à créer des lois et des règles, à former le goût littéraire, à faire jaillir de nouvelles formes et genres, doctrines et disciplines ?

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