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American sports fiction / editors, Michael Cocchiarale, Widener University, Scott D. Emmert, University of Wisconsis-Fox Valley.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical insights.
- Critical Insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Sports in literature.
- Sports stories, American--History and criticism.
- Sports stories, American.
- Athletics in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 271 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book presents new essays on the significance of sports fiction in American society and culture. Sports fiction in the United States, beginning in the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century, engages a broad spectrum of social and cultural issues. This volume presents an in-depth study of these issues, while providing readers an engaging exploration of the genre.
- Contents:
- On American sports fiction / Michael Cocchiarale and Scott D. Emmert
- Critical contexts : Logos, nostos, eros, thanatos: Don DeLillo's "Pafko at the Wall" and end zone from a narratological perspective / Mark S. Graybill ; The history and cultural influence of sports fiction in America / Tracy J.R. Collins ; On a higher level: transcendence and purity in the literature of sports / Matthew J. Bartkowiak ; American sports fiction: a critical review / Susan J. Bandy
- Critical readings : More than "clever journalists": the cultural contributions of Noah Brooks, Ring Lardner, and Heywood Brown to American sports fiction / Scott D. Peterson ; After touring, the return to "real life": Frank Stockton's A Bicycle of Cathay / Peter Kratzke ; Fact, fantasy, and fan appreciation in Eric Rolfe Greenberg's The Celebrant / Eric Sterling ; Would Karl Marx call for an overthrow of ESPN? Sports as an opiate of the people / Greg Ahrenhoerster ; Don't apologize: class, masculinity, and the promise of ascent in Fat City and The Game / Mark Dziak ; Bambara's "Raymond's run": Hazel Parker as trackster and trickster / Mary Comfort ; John L. Parker Jr.'s Once a Runner and the Daimonic mindscape of sport / James Pipkin ; David Foster Wallace and the athlete's war with the self / Matthew J. Darling ; "Somewhere in this favored land": muscle and magic in the sports fictions of Michael Chabon / Joseph Dewey.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed April 10, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9781299311558
- 1299311555
- 9781429838405
- 142983840X
- OCLC:
- 832313978
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