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Ground rules : baseball & myth
- Title
- Ground rules : baseball & myth / Deeanne Westbrook.
- Author
- Westbrook, Deeanne.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 96-8568 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 348 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : baseball and myth -- The myth of the gap -- August Wilson's Fences and the art of bricolage -- Paths of glory : baseball, key narratives, and the monomyth -- Mark Harris's Bang the drum slowly and the two stories -- Dimensions of the field of play -- Going back to the mother-land : W. P. Kinsella's The Iowa baseball confederacy and William Kennedy's Ironweed -- At play on the fields of the gods : baseball, conversion, and crisis art -- Ecstasy and art in Eric Rolfe Greenberg's The celebrant -- Bernard Malamud's The natural in the wasteland -- Playing god, playing man : J. Henry Waugh in The house of joy -- Fathers and sons, blessings, and baseball's myth of atonement -- "Every inch a man" : the baseball dwarf -- Epilogue : the question of aesthetics : baseball, bricolage, and the beautiful.
- Call Number
- JFE 96-8568
- ISBN
- 0252022262 (alk. paper)
- 0252065298 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95004433
- OCLC
- 32737774
- Author
- Westbrook, Deeanne.
- Title
- Ground rules : baseball & myth / Deeanne Westbrook.
- Imprint
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 96-8568