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Author Pipkin, James W., 1944-

Title Sporting lives : metaphor and myth in American sports autobiographies / James W. Pipkin.

Publication Info. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 161 pages).
Series Sports and American culture series
Sports and American culture series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-155) and index.
Contents "The echoing green" -- Body songs -- Magic : the performing body -- The end of autumn -- "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" : Dennis Rodman and the contemporary athlete as postmodern celebrity.
Summary "Examines autobiographies by athletes such as Wilt Chamberlain, Babe Ruth, Martina Navratilova, and Dennis Rodman, and analyzes common themes and recurring patterns in the accounts of their lives and sporting experiences"--Provided by publisher.
Note Print version record.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Subject Athletes -- United States -- Biography.
Autobiographies -- United States.
Sports -- United States -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
Athletes. (OCoLC)fst00820027
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst00822593
Sports. (OCoLC)fst01130432
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Selbstdarstellung.
Sportler.
United States.
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Other Form: Print version: Pipkin, James W., 1944- Sporting lives. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007042564
ISBN 9780826266415 (electronic bk.)
082626641X (electronic bk.)
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