Sporting with the Gods examines the metaphors of 'play', 'game' and 'sport' as they are reflected in American literature and culture.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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.
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