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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Upon further review. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004 (OCoLC)645919889 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Cocchiarale; Scott Emmert |
| ISBN: | 0275980502 9780275980504 |
| OCLC Number: | 54753637 |
| Description: | xxiv, 219 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : Sports and American literature / Michael Cocchiarale and Scott D. Emmert -- Part I. Who's keeping score? Values and sports in American literature -- Batters and archetypes : baseball as trope in mid-century American literature / David C. Dougherty -- "War ... may hasten this change of values" : the World War II-era writings of John R. Tunis / Ryan K. Anderson -- "Partway there" : the Mexican League and American conflict in Mark Winegardner's The Veracruz blues / Chris York -- "The machine-language of the muscles" : reading, sport, and the self in Infinite jest / Stephen J. Burn -- Part II. Leaping hurdles : race, class, and sports in American literature -- White S(ox) vs. Indians : sports and unresolved cultural conflict in Native American fiction / Greg Ahrenhoerster -- Basketball's demands in Paul Beatty's The white boy shuffle / Tracy Curtis -- "Fairways of his imagination " : golf and social status in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fiction / A. Fletcher Cole -- Dualism and the quest for wholeness in Arna Bontemps's God sends Sunday / Lisa Abney -- Part III. Put a body on 'em : gender and sports in American literature -- The female voice in American sports literature and the quest for a female sporting identity / Susan J. Bandy -- "Monsters" and "face queens" in Harry Crews's Body / Andrew J. Price -- Hypermasculinity and sport in James Dickey's Deliverance / Mark S. Graybill -- The football elegies of James Dickey and Randall Jarrell : hegemonic masculinity versus the "semifemine mind" / Diederik Oostdijk -- Dancing with the bulls : engendering competition in Hemingway's The sun also rises and Silko's Ceremony / Ron Picard -- Part IV. What a beautiful play! Language, aesthetics, and sports in American literature -- Fouling out the American pastoral : rereading Philip Roth's The great American novel / Derek Parker Royal -- "And drive them from the temple" : baseball and the prophet in Eric Rolfe Greenberg's The celebrant / Roxanne Harde -- "The mob of carefree men and boys" : Vanity of Duluoz and Kerouac's panoramic consciousness / Matthew Kelley -- "And that's the ball game!" : cognitive linguistics, the life is a game metaphor and the late twentieth-century Southern novel / Suzanne Disheroon-Green. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Michael Cocchiarale and Scott Emmert. |
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