Sports, narrative, and nation in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald/ Jarom Lyle McDonald
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TextPublication details: New York : Routledge, c2007Description: vii,159p. ; 24cmISBN: 0415981336; 9780415981330Subject(s): Sports in literature | Sports spectators | Social status in literature | Social classes in literature | National characteristics, American, in literatureDDC classification: 813.52 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 813.52 AND/S Student companion to William Faulkner/ | 813.52 BAK/H Hemingway | 813.52 MAI/J John Dos Passos/ | 813.52 MCD/S Sports, narrative, and nation in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald/ | 813.52 PEE/A A companion to Faulkner studies/ | 813.52 POR/W William Faulkner/ | 813.52 RIE/F F. Scott Fitzgerald: a biography/ |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-156) and index.
Introduction : Fitzgerald, sport, and social interaction -- Ch. 1. "We are a very special country" : the narrativization of sport and the fiction of a classless nation -- Ch. 2. Gridiron paradise : Princetonian football, American class -- Ch. 3. "Idol of the whole body of young men" : football, heroes, and the performance of social status -- Ch. 4. "Perfunctory patriotism" : Tom Buchanan, Meyer Wolfshiem, and "America's game" -- Coda : of habitus and homecoming.
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