Wolfgang Kanduth

Cash, Culture & Violence

The Spell of Hockey in North American Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Stories about toothless Canadian hockey players who drink and gamble and make a remarkable living by chasing pucks and slamming into boards in a full-contact sport that counts to be the fastest and toughest ever to have been developed on this planet - those were my first ideas of hockey in literature. In case it needs to be mentioned, I'm talking about ice-hockey. Going through my first readings of short stories in Doug Beardsley s "Our Game: An All-Star Collection of Hockey Fiction", not all, but most of my anticipations on this topic are confirmed. Furthermore, I discover that writers who produce texts about hockey share a deep and emotional relationship to the sport and all that surrounds it, of people who grow up playing the game, their game, of talented athletes that make it to a professional level to become millionaire hero figures, and of fans that urge the desire to follow the game everywhere at any time and any cost. Hockey as a popular sport, a social game and a national identity are the cultural aspects I pick out as essential themes in writings about hockey, which are dealt with also in a lot of works of non-fiction, prose and poetry, and have had a highly visible effect on Canadian literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AV Akademikerverlag
• Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 197g
• ISBN-13: 9783639423372
• ISBN-10: 3639423372
• Artikelnr.: 36394466

Autorenporträt

Born on July 29th, 1981 in Klagenfurt/Carinithia, studied English literature at Karl Franzens University in Graz/Styria and currently lives and works in Wien/Vienna. Still chases pucks over ponds and rolls rocks over hills, missing no teeth and breathing easy.