The concept of game in the literary theory Hermeneutics and Deconstruction

Abstract

The concept of game in the literary theory : Hermeneutics and Deconstruction

the concept of game is central in the discourse of humans sciences of the 20th century. Where the linguistic turn and the writings of de saussure and wittegenstein opened a perspectives to give a theoretical interest to this concept, apart from major research studies around the role of game in culture as with Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) and Roger Caillois (1913-1978), all fields of humanities contributed to the development and analysis of the specificity to the concept of game in psychology, in pedagogy, sociology, philosophy , linguistics and in esthetic… Every attempt to see the relationship between game and literature can benefit from different approaches and contexts, we are facing three trends : the frist equal between ontologie of artwork and game, the second cares about the rules for evercoming language obstacles in artistic creativity ; while the third trend is psychological orientation that give literature and reading the same fonction, where game contributes to the integration of child into his social environment and to the advencement of his desirs. In general there are many historical and empirical examples of the presence of game in literature (stories, novels and poetry in which he game is central of literary work), and its role as a generative principle of texts. In this sense we will try in this paper to see the role of the concept to game in literary theory, in two main contemporary : Hermeneutics and deconstruction, through highlight their strategies towards literary texts. Keywords : Game, literary theory, Hermeneutics, Deconstruction