Philological Applications of Play and Game Theory
- Author / Editor
- Bodi, Russell John.
Philological Applications of Play and Game Theory
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1997): 234A.
- Description
- Literary uses of play and game both subvert and reinforce social order while encouraging readers to become involved. Medieval works tend to relate chivalry and war to game and play, while Platonism questions their value. Considers TC among works ranging from "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" to works of Swift.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Troilus and Criseyde.