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Gambling, game, and psyche
- Title
- Gambling, game, and psyche / Bettina L. Knapp.
- Author
- Knapp, Bettina Liebowitz, 1926-2010.
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2000.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 00-7944 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- viii, 308 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-298) an dindex.
- Contents
- ch. 1. Pascal: a geometer's wager with God -- ch. 2. Balzac: The wild ass's skin: the gambler's quest for power -- ch. 3. Poe: "William Wilson": gambler? wastrel? reprobate? -- ch. 4. Dostoevsky's flayed gambler -- ch. 5. Serao's Naples: smorfia mania and the devouring father -- ch. 6. Sholom Aleichem: "The lottery ticket": a human gamble -- ch. 7. Hesse's The glass bead game: computerized culture -- ch. 8. Kawabata's The master of go: game as ritual of exile -- ch. 9. Zhang Xinxin's Orchid madness.
- Call Number
- JFE 00-7944
- ISBN
- 0791443833 (hc : alk. paper)
- 0791443841 (pb : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98055926
- OCLC
- 40595292
- Author
- Knapp, Bettina Liebowitz, 1926-2010.
- Title
- Gambling, game, and psyche / Bettina L. Knapp.
- Imprint
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-298) an dindex.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 00-7944