Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction

Hawthorne to Faulkner

Nonfiction, Sports, History, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American
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Author: Christian Messenger ISBN: 9780231516617
Publisher: Columbia University Press Publication: May 31, 1983
Imprint: Columbia University Press Language: English
Author: Christian Messenger
ISBN: 9780231516617
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication: May 31, 1983
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Language: English

In this comprehensive and insightful study, Christian K. Messenger contends that American writers have always created characters at play in the sure knowledge that to be active in sport in America is to be in touch with its people, their traditions, and their fantasy lives.

This is the first inclusive critical study of sport in American fiction with chapters on individual authors such as Hawthorne, Lardner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner, as well as studies of sport in the literature of the frontier and in boys' formula fiction. A work of literary criticism, Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction also draws on the cultural history of American sport and leisure and on a century of American literature.

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In this comprehensive and insightful study, Christian K. Messenger contends that American writers have always created characters at play in the sure knowledge that to be active in sport in America is to be in touch with its people, their traditions, and their fantasy lives.

This is the first inclusive critical study of sport in American fiction with chapters on individual authors such as Hawthorne, Lardner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner, as well as studies of sport in the literature of the frontier and in boys' formula fiction. A work of literary criticism, Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction also draws on the cultural history of American sport and leisure and on a century of American literature.

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