The ambiguity of play /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sutton-Smith, Brian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.
Subjects:
Play > Psychological aspects.
Jeu > Aspect psychologique.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > Lifespan Development.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Life Stages > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Developmental > General.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Play > Psychological aspects
Psychologie
Spiel
Spel.
Psychologische aspecten.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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