{"product_id":"sporting-with-the-gods-the-rhetoric-of-play-and-game-in-american-literature-paperback-9780521101561","title":"Sporting with the Gods; The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521101561","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSporting with the Gods\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSporting with the Gods examines the metaphors of 'play', 'game' and 'sport' as they are reflected in American literature and culture.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Oriard (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521101561, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 December 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e600 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm, 0.87 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...we now have the play-game critical text that will become standard in American culture study.  Oriard dazzles the reader with play's suppleness and scope.\"   Christian K. Messenger, American Historical Review\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSporting 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 manifestoes, political rhetoric, etc.). The result is a cultural history of America from its inception.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Prologue: 'The game and the nation'\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Sportsmen and Gamesmen in the Nineteenth Century: 1. Play, sport and western mythmaking\u003cbr\u003e 2. Play, sport and southern honour\u003cbr\u003e 3. Gender and the game\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Raising the Stakes: 4. Playing the game of life\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'The game' in business fiction\u003cbr\u003e 6. Desperate players and the sport of the gods\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Twentieth-Century Legacies: 7. Sportsmen and gamesmen in twentieth-century fiction\u003cbr\u003e 8. In the wake of Moby-Dick\u003cbr\u003e 9. The 'great games' of politics and business\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Holy Play and the Counterculture: 10. Transcendental play and the theology of sentimentalism\u003cbr\u003e 11. Play and the counterculture in the 1920s\u003cbr\u003e 12. From beats and hippies to the new age\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006399729944,"sku":"9780521101561","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521101561i_4e08b1b2-aeb4-471c-b8f7-09615194e5fe.jpg?v=1694970787","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sporting-with-the-gods-the-rhetoric-of-play-and-game-in-american-literature-paperback-9780521101561","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}