Citations:ludic

English citations of ludic

• 2010, Jason Blake, Canadian Hockey Literature: A Thematic Study, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN (cloth-bound), →ISBN (paperback), chapter two: “The Hockey Dream: Hockey as Escape, Freedom, Utopia”, page 69:

  The longing to retreat from rule-bound hockey is a desire to move from one play pole to the other, from what Roger Caillois has called the ludic to the paedic end of the play continuum. Ludus satisfies the ‘taste for gratuitous difficulty,’ while paedia ‘is the indispensible prime mover of play [that] remains at the origins of its most complex and rigidly organized forms.’