The ambiguity of play
Sutton-Smith focuses on play theories rooted in seven distinct "rhetorics"--The ancient discourses of fate, power, communal identity, and frivolity and the modern discourses of progress, the imaginary, and the self. In a sweeping analysis that moves from the question of play in child development to the implications of play for the Western work ethic, he explores the values, historical sources, and interests that have dictated the terms and forms of play put forth in each discourse's "objective" theory
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1. Play and Ambiguity
2. Rhetorics of Animal Progress
3. Rhetorics of Child Play
4. Rhetorics of Fate
5. Rhetorics of Power
6. Rhetorics of Identity
7. Child Power and Identity
8. Rhetorics of the Imaginary
9. Child Phantasmagoria
10. Rhetorics of Self
11. Rhetorics of Frivolity
12. Conclusion
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English