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A Cultural History Of Chessplayers John Sharples

Name: A Cultural History Of Chessplayers John Sharples
SKU: BELL-6814048
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Publisher: Manchester University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 2.87 MB

Pages: 240

Author: John Sharples

ISBN: 9781784994204, 1784994200

Language: English

Year: 2017

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A Cultural History Of Chessplayers John Sharples by John Sharples 9781784994204, 1784994200 instant download after payment.

This study 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. The formation of these images has been
underpinned by challenges to, and confirmations of, chess s status as an
intellectually-superior and socially-useful game, particularly since
rule changes five centuries ago. Yet, the chess-player is an
understudied figure, whose many faces have frequently been obscured. No
previous work has shone a light on the chess-player itself.
Increasingly, chess-histories have retreated into tidy consensus. This
work takes aim at the kaleidoscopic chess-player. It aspires to a novel
reading of the figure as both a flickering beacon of reason and a sign
of monstrosity, one looking forwards and backwards, lurking out of reach
at the heart of modernity. 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 whose identity is used to
articulate a number of anxieties pertaining to themes of mind, machine,
and monster. Covering a wide variety of locations and individuals
including Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, the Automaton Chess-Player, and
moving from Victorian Paris to the neo-Gothic castles of
twenty-first-century New York, this work is aimed at students and
researchers in the fields of cultural history, leisure and sport, and
monster theory, as well as those interested in the intersection between
human and machine.