The Achievement of American sport literature : a critical appraisal / edited by Wiley Lee Umphlett
- Published
- Rutherford, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, [1991]
- Copyright Date
- ©1991
- Physical Description
- 215 pages ; 25 cm
- Additional Creators
- Umphlett, Wiley Lee, 1931-
- Contents
- Introduction: The genesis and growth of sport literature in America / Wiley Lee Umphlett -- I. The creative literature--fiction, drama (film), and poetry: Formulaic sources of the American sports-fiction tradition : the code of quality performance in juvenile sports fiction / Wiley Lee Umphlett -- John R. Tunis's American epic : or, bridging the gap between juvenile and adult sports fiction / Leverett T. Smith. Jr. -- Expansion draft : baseball fiction of the 1980s / Christian K. Messenger -- The bench warmer with a thousand faces : sports fiction and the democratic ideal / Robert W. Cochran -- The reflexive vision of sport in recent drama and film / Ronald K. Giles -- "Who the hell are you, kid?" : the new baseball poem as a vehicle for identity / Don Johnson / Women's sports poetry : some observations and representative texts / Brooke K. Horvath and Sharon G. Carson -- II. The supplemental literature--criticism, philosophy, autobiography, biography, history, and special studies: The inception and reception of a journal : the story of sport literature's search for a voice and an identity / Lyle I. Olsen -- The agonic and the edenic : sport literature and the theory of play / Robert J. Higgs -- Sport, art, and aesthetics : a decade of controversy (1978-88) / Daniel J. Herman -- Athletes displaying their lives : the emergence of the contemporary sports autobiography / Mary McElroy -- Sports history/sport literature : some future directions and challenges / Michael Oriard.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0838634001 (alk. paper)
- Collection
- Ronald A. Smith Sports History Book Collection.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-209) and index.
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