Sporting with the Gods
The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature
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2008
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-10156-1 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-10156-1 (ISBN)
Sporting with the Gods examines the metaphors of 'play', 'game' and 'sport' as they are reflected in American literature and culture. The book traces the cultural history of these metaphors primarily through American literary texts resulting in a cultural history of America from its inception.
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.
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.
Preface; Prologue: 'The game and the nation'; Part I. Sportsmen and Gamesmen in the Nineteenth Century: 1. Play, sport and western mythmaking; 2. Play, sport and southern honour; 3. Gender and the game; Part II. Raising the Stakes: 4. Playing the game of life; 5. 'The game' in business fiction; 6. Desperate players and the sport of the gods; Part III. Twentieth-Century Legacies: 7. Sportsmen and gamesmen in twentieth-century fiction; 8. In the wake of Moby-Dick; 9. The 'great games' of politics and business; Part IV. Holy Play and the Counterculture: 10. Transcendental play and the theology of sentimentalism; 11. Play and the counterculture in the 1920s; 12. From beats and hippies to the new age; Epilogue; Notes; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.12.2008 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 870 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-521-10156-5 / 0521101565 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-10156-1 / 9780521101561 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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