TY - BOOK AU - Messenger,Christian TI - Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction: Hawthorne to Faulkner SN - 9780231516617 AV - PS374.S76 M4 U1 - 813.009355 PY - 1983///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - American fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Athletes in literature KW - Play in literature KW - Sports in literature KW - Sports stories KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/mess05168 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780231516617.jpg ER -