The ambiguity of play / Brian Sutton-Smith.

By:

Sutton-Smith, Brian

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997Description: x, 276 pages ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0674017331
9780674017337

Subject(s):

Play -- Psychological aspects

DDC classification:

155 21

LOC classification:

BF717. S93 1997

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.

Summary: 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 development to the implications of play for the Western work ethic, he explores the values, historical sources, and interests that have dictated the terms and forms of play put forth in each discourse's "objective" theory.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-271) and index.

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 development to the implications of play for the Western work ethic, he explores the values, historical sources, and interests that have dictated the terms and forms of play put forth in each discourse's "objective" theory.

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