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Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction : Hawthorne to Faulkner / Christian Messenger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1983]Copyright date: ©1983Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231516617
  • 9780231516617
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.009355
LOC classification:
  • PS374.S76 M4
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. Play, Game, Sport: Classic American Literature -- Chapter 1. Hawthorne: The Play Spirit -- Chapter 2. Sport and Society -- PART II. The Popular Sports Hero -- Chapter 3. Sport and the Frontier -- Chapter 4. Organized Sport and Its Reporters -- Chapter 5. Lardner: The Popular Sports Hero -- PART III. The School Sports Hero -- Chapter 6. The Incarnation of the College Athletic Hero -- Chapter 7. The Boys' School Sports Story -- Chapter 8. Fitzgerald: The School Sports Hero -- Chapter 9. The School Sports Hero as Satiric Emblem: Hemingway and Faulkner -- PART IV. The Modern Ritual Sports Hero -- Chapter 10. Hemingway: Exemplary Heroism and Heroic Witnessing -- Chapter 11. Faulkner: The Play Spirit -- Chapter 12. Sports Approaches the Sacred: Hemingway and Faulkner -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I. Play, Game, Sport: Classic American Literature -- Chapter 1. Hawthorne: The Play Spirit -- Chapter 2. Sport and Society -- PART II. The Popular Sports Hero -- Chapter 3. Sport and the Frontier -- Chapter 4. Organized Sport and Its Reporters -- Chapter 5. Lardner: The Popular Sports Hero -- PART III. The School Sports Hero -- Chapter 6. The Incarnation of the College Athletic Hero -- Chapter 7. The Boys' School Sports Story -- Chapter 8. Fitzgerald: The School Sports Hero -- Chapter 9. The School Sports Hero as Satiric Emblem: Hemingway and Faulkner -- PART IV. The Modern Ritual Sports Hero -- Chapter 10. Hemingway: Exemplary Heroism and Heroic Witnessing -- Chapter 11. Faulkner: The Play Spirit -- Chapter 12. Sports Approaches the Sacred: Hemingway and Faulkner -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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