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The allure of sports in Western Culture /
Sports are the most popular spectator events in the history of the world. This volume demonstrates how sports shape societies and individuals. The essays offer critical new insights and historical case studies from historians, theorists, literature scholars, and athletes.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2019.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction; Introduction: The Allure of Sports; Part II: Theoretical Perspectives; 1 Sports/Allure; 2 "Allure" Constrained by "Ethics"? How Athletic Events Have Engaged Their Spectators; Part III: The Ancient World; 3 The Fading Allure of Greek Athletics; 4 Wrestling, or the Art of Disentangling Bodies; 5 The Allure and Ethics of Ancient Aesthetics: Hellenism in the Modern Olympic Movement; Part IV: Modern Europe; 6 Attractive or Repugnant? Foot Races in Eighteenth-Century Germany and Britain.
- 7 A Well-Trained Community: Gymnastics for the German Nation8 Importing a German Kampfsport: The Reception and Practice of Japanese Martial Arts in Interwar Germany; 9 The Ethics and Allure of the Foul in Football; Part V: Coda; 10 Swimming; Contributors; Index.