If game theory, the mathematical simulation of rational decision-making first axiomatically established by the Hungarian-born American mathematician John von Neumann, is to prove worthy of literary hermeneutics, then critics must be able to apply its models to texts written without a working knowledge of von Neumann's discipline in mind.
Michael Wainwright is Associate Lecturer of English and Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
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"Michael Wainwright's impressive and ambitious study offers a persuasive re-reading of the political and cultural fabric of the early Cold War years in the United States. In bringing a new and sophisticated understanding of game theory to literary studies, this book is a timely refocusing of critical attention upon the patterns of rational decision-making in fictional representations of personal and societal conflict." - Brian Baker, Senior Lecturer in English, Lancaster University, UK, and author of Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and Television
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Preface1. On Preliminary Matters2. On Game Theory, the Art of Literature, and the Stag Hunt3. On the Postwar Strategic Background, the Prisoner's Dilemma, and In Cold Blood4. On Chicken in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye5. On Countercultural Chicken in Fahrenheit 451 and A Raisin in the Sun6. On Coldblooded Chicken in In Cold Blood7. On Called Bluff in Capote, Deadlock in Twain, and Bully in FaulknerWorks CitedIndex
