Sporting with the Gods
The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature
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ISBN-13:
9780521391139
Veröffentl:
2007
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
08.10.2007
Seiten:
600
Autor:
Michael Oriard
Gewicht:
1115 g
Format:
235x157x39 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Sporting with the Gods examines the metaphors of 'play', 'game' and 'sport' as they are reflected in American literature and culture.
Preface; Prologue: 'The game and the nation'; Part I. Sportsmen and Gamesmen in the Nineteenth Century: 1. Play, sport and western mythmaking; 2. Play, sport and southern honour; 3. Gender and the game; Part II. Raising the Stakes: 4. Playing the game of life; 5. 'The game' in business fiction; 6. Desperate players and the sport of the gods; Part III. Twentieth-Century Legacies: 7. Sportsmen and gamesmen in twentieth-century fiction; 8. In the wake of Moby-Dick; 9. The 'great games' of politics and business; Part IV. Holy Play and the Counterculture: 10. Transcendental play and the theology of sentimentalism; 11. Play and the counterculture in the 1920s; 12. From beats and hippies to the new age; Epilogue; Notes; Index.
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