Gambling, game, and psyche / Bettina L. Knapp.
| Author/creator | Knapp, Bettina Liebowitz |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000. |
| Description | viii, 308 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture. ^A324789 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-298) an dindex. |
| LCCN | 98055926 |
| ISBN | 0791443833 (hc : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0791443841 (pb : alk. paper) |