Sporting with the Gods The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature

Name: Sporting with the Gods The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature
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ISBN: 9780521391139

ISBN-10: 052139113X

ISBN-13: 9780521391139

Edition: 1991

Authors: Michael Oriard

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Book details

List price: $228.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/22/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 600
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.45" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.090



Preface


Prologue: 'The game and the nation'



Sportsmen and Gamesmen in the Nineteenth Century



Play, sport and western mythmaking



Play, sport and southern honour



Gender and the game



Raising the Stakes



Playing the game of life



'The game' in business fiction



Desperate players and the sport of the gods



Twentieth-Century Legacies



Sportsmen and gamesmen in twentieth-century fiction



In the wake of Moby-Dick



The 'great games' of politics and business



Holy Play and the Counterculture



Transcendental play and the theology of sentimentalism



Play and the counterculture in the 1920s



From beats and hippies to the new age


Epilogue


Notes


Index.