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ludic
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lu·dic  (ldk)
adj.
Of or relating to play or playfulness: "Fiction . . . now makes [language] the center of its reflexive concern, and explodes in ludic, parodic, ironic forms" (Ihab Hassan).

[French ludique, from Latin ldus, play; see leid- in Indo-European roots.]

ludic [ˈluːdɪk]
adj
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) Literary playful
[from French ludique, from Latin lūdus game]
Translations
ludic [ˈluːdɪk] ADJlúdico
ludic
adj (liter)spielerisch


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Particularly in his latter day works, the aspiration for transcendence overshadows the frivolous postmodernist indulgence in metatextual ludics, which is why the preferred reading of these books is in the symbolical-archetypal key.
 
 
 
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