Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction : : Hawthorne to Faulkner / / Christian Messenger.
In this comprehensive and insightful study, Christian K. Messenger contends that American writers have always created characters at play in the sure knowledge that to be active in sport in America is to be in touch with its people, their traditions, and their fantasy lives.This is the first inclusiv...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1983] ©1983 |
| Year of Publication: | 1983 |
| Language: | English |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Preface -- |t Introduction -- |t PART I. Play, Game, Sport: Classic American Literature -- |t Chapter 1. Hawthorne: The Play Spirit -- |t Chapter 2. Sport and Society -- |t PART II. The Popular Sports Hero -- |t Chapter 3. Sport and the Frontier -- |t Chapter 4. Organized Sport and Its Reporters -- |t Chapter 5. Lardner: The Popular Sports Hero -- |t PART III. The School Sports Hero -- |t Chapter 6. The Incarnation of the College Athletic Hero -- |t Chapter 7. The Boys' School Sports Story -- |t Chapter 8. Fitzgerald: The School Sports Hero -- |t Chapter 9. The School Sports Hero as Satiric Emblem: Hemingway and Faulkner -- |t PART IV. The Modern Ritual Sports Hero -- |t Chapter 10. Hemingway: Exemplary Heroism and Heroic Witnessing -- |t Chapter 11. Faulkner: The Play Spirit -- |t Chapter 12. Sports Approaches the Sacred: Hemingway and Faulkner -- |t Conclusion -- |t Notes -- |t Index |
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| 520 | |a In this comprehensive and insightful study, Christian K. Messenger contends that American writers have always created characters at play in the sure knowledge that to be active in sport in America is to be in touch with its people, their traditions, and their fantasy lives.This is the first inclusive critical study of sport in American fiction with chapters on individual authors such as Hawthorne, Lardner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner, as well as studies of sport in the literature of the frontier and in boys' formula fiction. A work of literary criticism, Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction also draws on the cultural history of American sport and leisure and on a century of American literature. | ||
| 530 | |a Issued also in print. | ||
| 538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
| 546 | |a In English. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) | |
| 650 | 0 | |a American fiction |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Athletes in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Play in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sports in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sports stories |x History and criticism. | |
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