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02172aam a2200397 i 4500 001 113DC0082FC611E7A3652FCCDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170503010126 008 150921t20162016enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015031700 020 $a 1137588225 020 $a 9781137588227 020 $a 1137590556 020 $a 9781137590558 035 $a (OCoLC)946907668 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c STF $d OCLCO $d IUL $d U3G $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS153 M56 W35 2016 100 1 $a Wainwright, Michael, $e author. 245 10 $a Game theory and minorities in American literature / $c Michael Wainwright. 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2016. 300 $a xx, 243 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index. 520 $a "This pioneering study applies the theory of games of strategy (or game theory) to a selection of minoritarian texts from the American canon. Concentrating on rational decision making, the discussion introduces the most common social dilemmas, the Stag Hunt, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Chicken, and Deadlock, as a means of interpreting works by Franklin, Douglass, Jacobs, Hurston, Faulkner, Morrison, and Hamid"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 00 $g 9. $t On Minoritarian Chicken and Majoritarian Bullying. $g 2. $t On the Theory of Games of Strategy -- $g 3. $t On Game Theory and Aesthetics -- $g 4. $t On Douglass and Dialectics -- $g 5. $t On Rousseau and Minoritarian Inequality -- $g 6. $t On Rousseau's Stag Hunt and Douglass -- $g 7. $t On Faulkner's Rousseauan "A Bear Hunt" -- $g 8. $t On Minoritarian Stag Hunts -- $g 9. $t On Minoritarian Chicken and Majoritarian Bullying. 650 0 $a American literature $x Theory, etc. $x History and criticism $x Theory, etc. 650 0 $a Game theory. 650 0 $a Minorities $z United States $x Intellectual life. 650 0 $a Minorities in literature. 650 0 $a Canon (Literature) 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211032521.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170706034847.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=113DC0082FC611E7A3652FCCDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search