The Wreath of Wild Olive: Play, Liminality, and the Study of Literature

SUNY Press (1997)
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Examines the concept of play in Western thought, with special emphasis on the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, and envisions literary discourse as contributing to an alternative mentality based on peace rather than power.

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The Word and Body of Postmodernism.G. L. Tul'chinskii - 2003 - Russian Studies in Philosophy 42 (3):5-35.

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