Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction

Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 393
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ISBN-10 : 9780231516617
ISBN-13 : 0231516614
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Book Synopsis Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction by : Christian K. Messenger

Download or read book Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction written by Christian K. Messenger and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1983-05-31 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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