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Title: A Cultural History of Chess-Players Condition: New Subtitle: Minds, Machines, and Monsters Author: John Sharples Format: Hardback Type: Hardback ISBN-10: 1784994200 EAN: 9781784994204 ISBN: 9781784994204 Publisher: Manchester University Press Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Social Sciences, Indoor Games & Puzzle Books, History Release Date: 15/08/2017 Description: 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. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 234mm Item Length: 156mm Item Width: 14mm Item Weight: 517g Release Year: 2017
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