Brian Sutton-Smith, Playful Scholar

A Centennial Celebration
Herausgeber: Beresin, Anna; Patte, Michael M.; Brown, Fraser

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Produktbeschreibung

This book honors the legacy of Dr. Brian Sutton-Smith, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania. We present an eclectic array of essays written in honor of the centennial of his birth, ranging from the scholarly to the overtly playful.

Produktdetails

• Play and Culture Studies Nr.17
• Verlag: Hamilton Books
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9780761874027
• ISBN-10: 076187402X
• Artikelnr.: 70053936

Autorenporträt

Edited by Michael M. Patte; Fraser Brown and Anna Beresin

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures, Images and Tables
Foreword byJames E. Johnson
Introduction by Michael M. Patte
Chapter 1: An Ever-Incomplete Conversation Between Three Books: Homo Ludens
by Johan Huizinga, The Ambiguity of Play by Brian Sutton-Smith, and The
Ecology of Imagination in Childhood by Edith Cobb by Sylwyn Guilbaud
Chapter 2: Memories of Brian: a Fellow Contrarian byGordon M. Burghardt
Chapter 3: Brian Sutton-Smith and the Obscurity of Play by Peter D.
McDonald
Chapter 4: Key Ideas of Brian Sutton-Smith by Anna Beresin
Chapter 5: The Remembrances of a Folklorist by June Factor
Chapter 6: Play Manifesto by Ana Marjanovic-Shane
Chapter 7: The Ambiguity of Love: A Commedia dell'arte Scenario Based on
The Seven Rhetorics of Play of Brian Sutton-Smith's Famous Work (with
scholarly commentary) by John Joseph Cash & John A. Cross
Chapter 8: From the Streets of Wellington to the Ivy League: Reflecting on
a Lifetime of Play
- An Interview with Brian Sutton-Smith by Fraser Brown & Michael M. Patte
Chapter 9: Brian Does a Prank by Jay Mechling
Chapter 10: Brian Sutton-Smith and Anything Goes: "A carnevale ogni scherzo
vale" by Helen B. Schwartzman
Chapter 11: Metaphorical Explorations of Play and Playwork by Fraser Brown
Chapter 12: Brian Sutton-Smith: Notes and Snapshots by Jeffrey Goldstein
Chapter 13: My Hybrid Hundredth Birthday Celebration for Brian Sutton-Smith
by Elizabeth Tucker
Chapter 14: Incorporating Adult Play in Graduate Education: Inspired by
Brian Sutton-Smith by Myae Han, Ekaterina Novikova, Stephanie Kuntz,
Ariadni Kouzeli, Sharon Davis, Amy Santos, & Margo Harlan
Chapter 15: Inside the Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play at
The Strong by Jeremy K. Saucier
Chapter 16: A Sutton-Smith Mini Puzzle by Anna Beresin
Appendix: Brief Reflections-A Celebratory Compilation by Fraser Brown
About the Contributors
Index