Sport and the spirit of play in American fiction : Hawthorne to Faulkner / Christian K. Messenger.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, 1981.Description: xv, 369 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0231051689
- 0231051697 (pbk.)
- 813/.009/355 19
- PS374.S76 M4
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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.