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Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction By:"Christian K. Messenger" Published on 2012-08-21 by Columbia University Press Read online or download Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction -"Literary Criticism" 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. This Book was ranked 29 b...

Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood By:"Ryan K. Anderson" Published on 2015-09-25 by University of Arkansas Press Read online or download Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood -"Social Science" Gilbert Patten, writing as Burt L. Standish, made a career of generating serialized twenty-thousand-word stories featuring his fictional creation Frank Merriwell, a student athlete at Yale University who inspired others to emulate his example of manly boyhood. Patten and his publisher, Street and Smith, initially had only a general idea about what would constitute Merriwell’s adventures and who would want to read about them when they introduced the hero in the dime novel Tip Top Weekly in 1896, but over the years what took shape was a story line that capitalized on middle-class fears about the insidious influence of modern life on the nation’s boys. Merriwell came to symbolize the Progressive Era debate about how sport and school made boy...

Fiction, Folklore, Fantasy and Poetry for Children, 1876-1985 By:"Beverley Lamar","Bowker" Published on 1986-10-01 by R. R. Bowker Read online or download Fiction, Folklore, Fantasy and Poetry for Children, 1876-1985 -"Reference" This Book was ranked 40 by Google Books for keyword Gilbert Patten. Read Online » » » Download » » »

Sports, Narrative, and Nation in the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald By:"McDonald Jarom","Jarom McDonald" Published on 2009-06-01 by Psychology Press Read online or download Sports, Narrative, and Nation in the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald -"Literary Criticism" This study examines the ways that F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed organized spectator sports as working to help structure ideologies of class, community, and nationhood. Situating the study in the landscape of late nineteenth/early twentieth-century American sport culture, Chapter One shows how narratives of attending ballgames, reading or listening to sports media, and being a 'fan,' cultivate communities of spectatorship. Adopting this same framework, the next three chapters explore how Fitzgerald's literary representations of sport culture express the complexities of American society. Chapter Two specifically considers the 'intense and dramatic spectacle' of college football in...