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Author Messenger, Christian K., 1943-

Title Sport and the spirit of play in American fiction : Hawthorne to Faulkner / Christian K. Messenger.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, 1981.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 369 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Hawthorne : the play spirit -- Sport and society -- Sport and the frontier -- Organized sport and its reporters -- Lardner : the popular sports hero -- The incarnation of the college athletic hero -- The boys' school sports story -- Fitzgerald : the school sports hero -- The school sports hero as satiric emblem : Hemingway and Faulkner -- Hemingway : exemplary heroicism and heroic witnessing -- Faulkner : the play spirit -- Sports approaches the sacred : Hemingway and Faulkner.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL
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Subject American fiction -- History and criticism.
Sports in literature.
Athletes in literature.
Play in literature.
Sports stories -- History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American fiction. (OCoLC)fst00807048
Athletes in literature. (OCoLC)fst00820081
Play in literature. (OCoLC)fst01066967
Sports in literature. (OCoLC)fst01130684
Sports stories. (OCoLC)fst01130763
Romans.
Sport.
Amerikaans.
Spel.
Literatur.
Spiel (Motiv)
Sport (Motiv)
United States.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Print version: Messenger, Christian K., 1943- Sport and the spirit of play in American fiction. New York : Columbia University Press, 1981 0231051689 (DLC) 81004843 (OCoLC)7307398
ISBN 9780231516617 (electronic bk.)
0231516614 (electronic bk.)
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