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A cultural history of chess-players : Minds, machines, and monsters / / John Sharples



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Autore: Sharples John Visualizza persona
Titolo: A cultural history of chess-players : Minds, machines, and monsters / / John Sharples Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, [Michigan] : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017
©2017
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 pages)
Disciplina: 794.1092/2
Soggetto topico: Chess - Social aspects
Chess players
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: animal
automaton chess-player
child prodigy
detective fiction
masculinities
melancholic
monstrosity
monstrous bodies
moralities
sinner
statuesque chess-player
superhero
transhuman
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index.
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.
Titolo autorizzato: A cultural history of chess-players  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5261-2055-0
1-5261-2054-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910817314603321
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