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Sport and the spirit of play in American fiction : Hawthorne to Faulkner / Christian K. Messenger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 1981.Description: xv, 369 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0231051689
  • 0231051697 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.009/355 19
LOC classification:
  • PS374.S76 M4
Contents:
Hawthorne : the play spirit -- Sport and society -- Sport and the frontier -- Organized sport and its reporters -- Lardner : the popular sports hero -- The incarnation of the college athletic hero -- The boys' school sports story -- Fitzgerald : the school sports hero -- The school sports hero as satiric emblem : Hemingway and Faulkner -- Hemingway : exemplary heroicism and heroic witnessing -- Faulkner : the play spirit -- Sports approaches the sacred : Hemingway and Faulkner.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks PS374.S76M4 1 Available 33710000148747

Includes bibliographical references and index.

WAR, NEWBERY,

Hawthorne : the play spirit -- Sport and society -- Sport and the frontier -- Organized sport and its reporters -- Lardner : the popular sports hero -- The incarnation of the college athletic hero -- The boys' school sports story -- Fitzgerald : the school sports hero -- The school sports hero as satiric emblem : Hemingway and Faulkner -- Hemingway : exemplary heroicism and heroic witnessing -- Faulkner : the play spirit -- Sports approaches the sacred : Hemingway and Faulkner.

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