| The Play of the Self Contributor(s): Bogue, Ronald (Editor), Spariosu, Mihai I. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0791420809 ISBN-13: 9780791420805 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Political |
| Dewey: 809 |
| LCCN: 93-43552 |
| Series: Suny Series, the Margins of Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.7" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between play and mimesis in the constitution and dissolution of the individual and social self. The volume is divided into three sections, the first of which focuses on the mimetic-ludic foundations of mind, memory, and desire; the second on the social and psychological self as agent of playful performance and product of cultural codes; and the third on the interplay of psyche, image, and power in literary and artistic representations of the self. The subjects of the individual studies vary widely, from the interrelation of power and play in Orlando Furioso to the ludic foundations of cognition to the concept of the self in Foucault and Deleuze. |