The aesthetic of play /
In this book, Brian Upton analyzes the experience of play - how playful activities unfold from moment to moment and how the rules we adopt constrain that unfolding. Drawing on games that range from Monopoly to Dungeons & Dragons to Guitar Hero, he develops a framework for understanding play, int...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
The MIT Press,
[2015]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In this book, Brian Upton analyzes the experience of play - how playful activities unfold from moment to moment and how the rules we adopt constrain that unfolding. Drawing on games that range from Monopoly to Dungeons & Dragons to Guitar Hero, he develops a framework for understanding play, introducing a set of critical tools that can help analyze games and game designs and identify ways in which they succeed or fail. He considers the making of meaning in play and in every aspect of human culture. He draws on findings in pragmatic epistemology, neuroscience, and semiotics to describe how meaning emerges from playful engagement. Upton argues that play can also explain particular aspects of narrative; a play-based interpretive stance, he proposes, can help us understand the structure of books, of music, of theater, of art, and even of the process of critical engagement itself. -- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (323 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262324205 0262324202 9780262324212 0262324210 9780262542630 0262542633 |