Lee Mcgowan

Football in Fiction

A History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Football in Fiction represents the most comprehensive historical mapping and analysis of novels related to association football (soccer). It offers a theoretically informed field guide, a scholarly cartography of football fiction's uncertain, and until now, only partially explored terrain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780367361327
• ISBN-10: 0367361329
• Artikelnr.: 57998916

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A long ball game
1. Before Fever Pitch: A true history of football fiction
2. Current form: The contemporary landscape of football fiction
3. Line-Markings: The topography of football fiction
4. 'Rules for the simplest game': Conventions of the football fiction genre
5. Two halves: Differentiation between adult and young adult football fiction
"Play the whistle!": A conclusion of sorts
Appendix: They think it's all oeuvre... A catalogue of football fiction