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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...

Sports in American History, 2E By:"Gems, Gerald","Borish, Linda","Pfister, Gertrud" Published on 2017-02-27 by Human Kinetics Read online or download Sports in American History, 2E -"Sports & Recreation" Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization, Second Edition, journeys from the early American past to the present to give students a compelling grasp of the evolution of American sporting practices. This Book was ranked 27 by Google Books for keyword Gilbert Patten. Read Online » » » Download » » »