The Play of the Self

This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between play and mimesis in the constitution and dissolution of the individual and social self. The volume is divided into three sections, the first of which focuses on the mimetic-ludic foundations of mind, memory, and desire; the second on the social and psychological self as agent of playful performance and product of cultural codes; and the third on the interplay of psyche, image, and power in literary and artistic representations of the self. The subjects of the individual studies vary widely, from the interrelation of power and play in Orlando Furioso to the ludic foundations of cognition to the concept of the self in Foucault and Deleuze.

About the author

At the University of Georgia Ronald Bogue is Professor and Head of the Comparative Literature Department and Mihai I. Spariosu is Professor of Comparative Literature.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ronald Bogue (Editor), Mihai I Spariosu (Editor), Mihai I. Spariosu (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.1994
• EAN: 9780791420805
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-2080-5
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 226 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Series: Suny Series, the Margins of Li; Suny Series, the Margins of Li
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education