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Ground rules : baseball & myth

Title
Ground rules : baseball & myth / Deeanne Westbrook.
Author
Westbrook, Deeanne.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996], ©1996.

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348 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Baseball stories, American > History and criticism
  • Baseball in literature
  • Myth in literature
  • Literature and anthropology > United States > History > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-337) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Baseball and Myth -- 1. The Myth of the Gap -- 2. August Wilson's Fences and the Art of Bricolage -- 3. Paths of Glory: Baseball, Key Narratives, and the Monomyth -- 4. Mark Harris's Bang the Drum Slowly and the Two Stories -- 5. Dimensions of the Field of Play -- 6. Going Back to the Motherland: W. P. Kinsella's The Iowa Baseball Confederacy and William Kennedy's Ironweed -- 7. At Play on the Fields of the Gods: Baseball, Conversion, and Crisis Art -- 8. Ecstasy and Art in Eric Rolfe Greenberg's The Celebrant -- 9. Bernard Malamud's The Natural in the Wasteland -- 10. Playing God, Playing Man: J. Henry Waugh in the House of Joy -- 11. Fathers and Sons, Blessings, and Baseball's Myth of Atonement -- 12. "Every Inch a Man": The Baseball Dwarf -- 13. Baseball, Bricolage, and the Beautiful.
ISBN
  • 0252022262 (alk. paper)
  • 0252065298 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
95004433
OCLC
  • 32737774
  • ocm32737774
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Columbia University Libraries