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

• Autore: Sharples John
• 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
• ISBN: 1-5261-2055-0; 1-5261-2054-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910796388003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II