1st Edition
Games and Sport in Everyday Life Dialogues and Narratives of the Self
By Robert S. Perinbanayagam
Copyright 2006
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
294 Pages
by
Routledge
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"This is a powerful, richly nuanced, evocative work; a stunning and brilliantly innovative pedagogical intervention. It provides ground zero-the starting place for the next generation of theorists who study the self, narrative theory, and the place of games and sport in everyday life. A stunning accomplishment by one of America's major social theorists." Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois at... Read more
1. Games: The Self in Dialogue and Narrative 2. The Structures of Games 3. The Self at Play: The Self in Time, Place, and Position 4. The Morality of Games 5. Toward a Heroic Life 6. Reflexive Catharsis 7. Gaming Ideologies and Playing Utopias
Biography
Robert Perinbanayagam
"This is a powerful, richly nuanced, evocative work; a stunning and brilliantly innovative pedagogical intervention. It provides ground zero-the starting place for the next generation of theorists who study the self, narrative theory, and the place of games and sport in everyday life. A stunning accomplishment by one of America's major social theorists."Norman K. Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
