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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Sharples John"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"A cultural history of chess-players : Minds, machines, and monsters / / John Sharples"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Manchester, [Michigan] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2017"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-5261-2055-0"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-5261-2054-2"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (225 pages)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"794.1092/2"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Chess - Social aspects"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Chess players"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index."]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented collection of images, underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chess's status as an intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since the medieval period. Yet, the chess-player is an understudied figure. No previous work has shone a light on the chess-player itself. Increasingly, chess-histories have retreated into tidy consensus. This work aspires to a novel reading of the figure as both a flickering beacon of reason and a sign of monstrosity. To this end, this book, utilising a wide range of sources, including newspapers, periodicals, detective novels, science-fiction, and comic-books, is underpinned by the idea that the chess-player is a pluralistic subject used to articulate a number of anxieties pertaining to themes of mind, machine, and monster."]