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Game theory and minorities in American literature[electronic resource] /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	810.9
書名/作者:	Game theory and minorities in American literature/ by Michael Wainwright.
作者:	Wainwright, Michael.
出版者:	New York : : Palgrave Macmillan US :, 2016.
面頁冊數:	xxi, 243 p. : : ill., digital ;; 23 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
標題:	North American Literature.
標題:	African Literature.
標題:	Cultural Studies.
標題:	Anthropology.
標題:	Game Theory.
標題:	Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.
標題:	American literature - Minority authors
標題:	Canon (Literature)
標題:	Game theory.
標題:	Minorities in literature.
標題:	Minorities - Intellectual life. - United States
標題:	Literature.
ISBN:	9781137588227
ISBN:	9781137590558
摘要、提要註:	This interdisciplinary monograph applies the theory of games of strategy (or game theory) to an important subset of American literature: minoritarian texts. Fittingly, John von Neumann's game theory, as a mathematical subdiscipline practically abandoned by its founder after the publication of 'Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele' (1928), but purposefully reengaged with on his permanent relocation to America in 1938, carries the minoritarian credentials of a Hungarian-born national of Jewish descent. The state of international politics in the late 1930s certainly contributed to von Neumann's renewed interest in his theory, but a socioeconomic environment built on the legacy of slavery focused a reengagement with coordination problems that would last until his death. In these strategic situations, people must make choices in the knowledge that other people face the same options and that the outcome for each person will result from everybody's decisions. The four most frequently encountered coordination problems are the Stag Hunt, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Chicken, and Deadlock Minoritarians find majoritarian attempts to control these social dilemmas particularly challenging. Hence, a game-theoretically inflected hermeneutic that identifies the logical, rational, and strategic state of human interrelations not only helps to categorize, but also to analyze minoritarian texts. The authors under detailed consideration are Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Harriet A. Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Mohsin Hamid.
電子資源:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137588227

Game theory and minorities in American literature[electronic resource] /
Wainwright, Michael.

Game theory and minorities in American literature[electronic resource] /by Michael Wainwright. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :2016. - xxi, 243 p. :ill., digital ;23 cm.

This interdisciplinary monograph applies the theory of games of strategy (or game theory) to an important subset of American literature: minoritarian texts. Fittingly, John von Neumann's game theory, as a mathematical subdiscipline practically abandoned by its founder after the publication of 'Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele' (1928), but purposefully reengaged with on his permanent relocation to America in 1938, carries the minoritarian credentials of a Hungarian-born national of Jewish descent. The state of international politics in the late 1930s certainly contributed to von Neumann's renewed interest in his theory, but a socioeconomic environment built on the legacy of slavery focused a reengagement with coordination problems that would last until his death. In these strategic situations, people must make choices in the knowledge that other people face the same options and that the outcome for each person will result from everybody's decisions. The four most frequently encountered coordination problems are the Stag Hunt, the Prisoner's Dilemma, Chicken, and Deadlock Minoritarians find majoritarian attempts to control these social dilemmas particularly challenging. Hence, a game-theoretically inflected hermeneutic that identifies the logical, rational, and strategic state of human interrelations not only helps to categorize, but also to analyze minoritarian texts. The authors under detailed consideration are Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Harriet A. Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Mohsin Hamid.

ISBN: 9781137588227

Standard No.: 10.1057/9781137588227doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

641071
North American Literature.

LC Class. No.: PS153.M56 / W35 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9

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