George Wither, a notoriously controversial poet of the 17th century, wrote in the introductory text to his Collection of Emblemes in 1635 that he was adding a “harmless […] recreation”, referring to the lottery game he included in his book, which contains two hundred emblems. Wither goes to great length to claim that his lottery is merely an innocent pastime that was added to the work to make it less “over-solid and serious”, but a careful examination of the game in relation to the rest of the volume reveals a more complex rhetorical and aesthetic purpose. The lottery game is allegorically represented in the middle of the frontispiece on the first page of the book, an intricate engraving by William Marshall representing the pilgrimage of li...
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In 1 Henry IV, Falstaff enacts his histrionic mock deposition scene, only to be usurped by England’s...
From Michel Picard’s La lecture comme jeu to Umberto Eco’s model of the “game of chess”, reading has...
Entre 1880 et 1920, l’institution scolaire en France, les pédagogues et les professeurs de pédagogie...
This paper seeks to consider games — and more particularly card games and gambling — as an American ...
When D.H. Lawrence wrote about Shakespeare’s Tempest in 1923, “whatever else you are, be masterless”...
Children’s literature has famously been described as “windows, offering views of worlds that may be ...
Historical games deserve to be examined not only by video games academics but by cultural studies ac...
Were it not for some wary yet bemused critics, who have praised its brinkmanship rather than its elo...
« Not this, nor that; yet somewhat, certainly », écrit Christina Rossetti dans l’un de ses poèmes, «...
Le présent article envisage à nouveaux frais les liens entre le traité sur la chasse de George Gasco...
The purpose of this paper is to study ESP power issues in the framework of the intentional approach ...
U luneti kapele bl. Ivana Trogirskog koju je Nikola Firentinac klesao oko 1480., jedan od anđela uz ...
A volume of a periodical of the Grand College of Rites of the United States of America published in ...
Le poète irlandais William Sharp se souvient avoir rendu visite à Walter Pater dans son appartement ...
International audienceFirst published in 1888, “The Lesson of the Master” stages once again the conf...
In 1 Henry IV, Falstaff enacts his histrionic mock deposition scene, only to be usurped by England’s...
From Michel Picard’s La lecture comme jeu to Umberto Eco’s model of the “game of chess”, reading has...
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