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Author:

Wainwright, Michael, author.

Title:

Game theory and minorities in American literature / Michael Wainwright.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xx, 243 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

American literature--Theory, etc.--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Game theory.
Minorities--United States--Intellectual life.
Minorities in literature.
Canon (Literature)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index.

Contents:

9. On Minoritarian Chicken and Majoritarian Bullying. 2. On the Theory of Games of Strategy -- 3. On Game Theory and Aesthetics -- 4. On Douglass and Dialectics -- 5. On Rousseau and Minoritarian Inequality -- 6. On Rousseau's Stag Hunt and Douglass -- 7. On Faulkner's Rousseauan "A Bear Hunt" -- 8. On Minoritarian Stag Hunts -- 9. On Minoritarian Chicken and Majoritarian Bullying.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1137588225
9781137588227
1137590556
9781137590558

OCLC:

(OCoLC)946907668

LCCN:

2015031700

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)