John Bale

Running Cultures

Racing in Time and Space

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bale brings running into the realm of the humanities by drawing on sources from literature, poetry, film and art as well as statistics and training manuals to highlight tensions, ambiguities and complexities lying beneath common notions of the sport.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780714655352
• ISBN-10: 071465535X
• Artikelnr.: 23255226

Autorenporträt

Bale, John

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Ways of Running 2. Running Ways 3. Beyond the Arena 4.
Athletes as Pets 5. Running as Transgression and Resistance 6. Escape:
Runners as Cosmopolites 7. Running and Racing: Moral Dilemmas and a Good
Life?