Sporting with the Gods

The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature

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Michael Oriard

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Series:

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

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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 manifestoes, political rhetoric, etc.). The result is a unique cultural history of America, from its inception to the present.

Release date NZ

February 22nd, 1991

Author

Michael Oriard

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Pages

600

Series

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Dimensions

160x240x38

ISBN-13

9780521391139

Product ID

2362361

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