Cultural dynamics of play / Katarzyna Kuczma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuczma, Katarzyna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2013]

Summary:

This volume offers an intercultural and interdisciplinary perspective on play. Tracing its origins and patterns, it comments on the inter-relationships of play's different aspects.

Contents:

Preliminary material

Performing the Taboo in Blue: Child Sexual Abuse and the Non-Flash Flash Mob in Trinidad and Tobago / Tia Smith Cooper

Play and Public Space: From Dada to Occupy / Benjamin Heim Shepard

Cosmology and Politics in Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests / Hala Maziad Altuwaijri

The Staging of the Child/Mother Relationship by Louise Bourgeois and Eugène Ionesco / Leslie Anne Boldt

‘Nobody Will Laugh’: (War) Games in the Short Story by Milan Kundera / Elsa Crous

Textual Playground: The Concept of Play in Literary Theory

Se Vuol Ballare: Theory and Practice of Play in Le Nozze di Figaro / Wendy C. Turgeon

‘What Fools These Mortals Be’: What Do Mortals Play at When They Play with Fiction? / Teresa Casal

Made to Play House: Pretending and Making-Believe in Dolls’ House Play / Nancy Wei-Ning Chen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-191-6

OCLC:

1096231866

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848881914 DOI