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The ambiguity of play /

Sutton-Smith focuses on play theories rooted in seven distinct "rhetorics"--The ancient discourses of fate, power, communal identity, and frivolity and the modern discourses of progress, the imaginary, and the self. In a sweeping analysis that moves from the question of play in child devel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sutton-Smith, Brian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Play and Ambiguity
  • 2. Rhetorics of Animal Progress
  • 3. Rhetorics of Child Play
  • 4. Rhetorics of Fate
  • 5. Rhetorics of Power
  • 6. Rhetorics of Identity
  • 7. Child Power and Identity
  • 8. Rhetorics of the Imaginary
  • 9. Child Phantasmagoria
  • 10. Rhetorics of Self
  • 11. Rhetorics of Frivolity
  • 12. Conclusion.