‘Why Read Literature?’: Appeasing the Appetite for Play

This article begins by questioning the ethical turn in literary studies (Hillis Miller, Attridge) and suggests that this redirection has tended to downplay the importance of what Friedrich Schiller had labelled ‘the play-drive’ (Spieltrieb). Drawing on neuroscientist Jaak Panskepp’s findings concern...

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Main Author: Pagan, Nicholas Osborne
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
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Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/21050/
https://doi.org/10.1080/20512856.2018.1443630
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