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    After his death, the French Literary award Prix Roger Caillois was named after him in 1991. Caillois was born in Reims, but moved to Paris as a child...
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    Game (section Roger Caillois)
    Suits' definition is a good answer to the problem. French sociologist Roger Caillois, in his book Les jeux et les hommes (Games and Men)(1961), defined a...
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  • the French sociologist Roger Caillois, (French Les jeux et les hommes, 1958) on the sociology of play and games or, in Caillois' terms, sociology derived...
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  • disorienting changes in direction of movement. Caillois developed the concept of ilinx.: 97  Caillois identified several categories of play in Les Jeux...
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  • The prix Roger Caillois is an annual literary prize established in 1991 in partnership with the PEN Club in France and the Maison de l'Amérique latine [fr]...
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    Collaborators in these projects included André Masson, Pierre Klossowski, Roger Caillois, Jules Monnerot, Jean Rollin and Jean Wahl. The German philosopher and...
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  • time in France. Apart from Bataille, who signed most of the texts, Roger Caillois (issue 3 and 4), Pierre Klossowski (issue 1, 2, 3 and 4), André Masson...
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  • chapter 18, Joyce's agon with Shakespeare. In "Man, Play, and Games" Roger Caillois uses the term Agon to define games of competitive nature. In sociopolitical...
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  • controversy and thereby generate 'free' news coverage". According to Roger Caillois, superstars are created by the interplay between "mass media, free enterprise...
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  • (novel), a novel of Victor Hugo Pierres (poems), a collection of poems of Roger Caillois Pierres is the name of several communes in France: Pierres, Calvados...
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