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

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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 inclusi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Messenger, Christian K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.
Temas:
American fiction > History and criticism.
Sports in literature.
Athletes in literature.
Play in literature.
Sports stories > History and criticism.
Roman américain > Histoire et critique.
Sports dans la littérature.
Jeu dans la littérature.
Récits de sports > Histoire et critique.
American fiction
Athletes in literature
Play in literature
Sports in literature
Sports stories
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Notas:NotesIndex.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (393 pages)
ISBN:9780231516617
0231516614

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