Sporting with the Gods

Name: Sporting with the Gods
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521101561
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The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature

Autor: Michael Oriard

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Cambridge University Press

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Sporting with the Gods examines the metaphors of 'play', 'game' and 'sport' as they are reflected in...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Michael Oriard

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2008

strony

600

EAN

9780521101561

ISBN

0521101565

Enbook ID

02021474

Wydawca

Cambridge University Press

Waga

902

Wymiary

228 x 152 x 34

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Sporting with the Gods examines the metaphors of 'play', 'game' and 'sport' as they are reflected in American literature and culture. The 'race' for salvation and success, the great 'games' of business and politics, the distinctive American version of 'fair play', the desperate 'game' against an all-powerful opponent and the cruelties of chance and fate by which man becomes the 'sport of the gods' - all of these metaphors touch fundamental American beliefs about fate and freedom, competition and chance, finitude and possibility. The book traces the cultural history of these metaphors primarily through American literary texts (from Cooper and Hawthorne to Updike and Mailer) but also through a wide range of nonliterary writings (sermons, dime novels, success writing, countercultural manifestoes, political rhetoric, etc.). The result is a cultural history of America from its inception.

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