Iconoclasm As Child's Play
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1098
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- ISBN
- 978-0804798501
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This book begins with the practice of giving formerly holy things to children as playthings during the reformation, a phenomenon with far-reaching implications for play, religion, and aesthetic experience. The holy thing that becomes a toy, it argues, captures deeper ambivalences towards the kinds of value that are conferred and metamorphosed in play, and that are embodied both in children and in material objects. Iconoclasm considers early modern texts, including Spenser’s poetry, a wide range of theoretical accounts of play – from Plato and Schiller to Adorno, Agamben and Alfred Gell – and visual artists from Bruegel to modern photography.
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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