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Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature

Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature

Oriard, Michael

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Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 45

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521101565
ISBN13: 9780521101561
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Dec 4 2008
Pages: 600
Weight: 1.91
Height: 1.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Sporting with the Gods examines the metaphors of play, game, and sport as they are reflected in American literature and culture. The race for salvation and success, the great games of business and politics, the distinctive American version of fair play, the desperate game against an all-powerful opponent and the cruelties of chance and fate by which man becomes the sport of the gods--all of these metaphors touch fundamental American beliefs about fate and freedom, competition and chance, finitude and possibility. The book traces the cultural history of these metaphors primarily through American literary texts (from Cooper and Hawthorne to Updike and Mailer) but also through a wide range of nonliterary writings (sermons, dime novels, success writing, countercultural manifestos, political rhetoric, etc.) The result is a unique cultural history of America, from its inception to the present.

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