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Baseball/literature/culture : essays, 2006-2007
- Title
- Baseball/literature/culture : essays, 2006-2007 / edited by Ronald E. Kates and Warren Tormey.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2008], ©2008.
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- Description
- vii, 202 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture has consistently produced a strong body of scholarship since its inception in 1995. Essays presented at the 2006 and 2007 conferences are published in this work"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface: A Pitch for Scholarly Diversity / Ronald E. Kates and Warren Tormey -- Of Ourselves We Sing: Finding an American Voice through Early Baseball Journalism / Scott D. Peterson -- Lasting Value to Passing Things: Sportswriters and Sports Fictionists as Scribes and Mythographers / Nicholas X. Bush -- Author Wiggen: More Than Just a Name / Warren Tormey -- Only the Game Was Real: The Aesthetics and Significance of Re-created Baseball Broadcasting / Robert G. Barrier -- Clearing the Field of Play: Judges, Umpires, and the Settlement of Law in Cooperstown / Steve Andrews -- As American as Mom's Apple Pie: Racism, Religious Fundamentalism, and Patriotism-A Marxist Critique of The Dixie Association / Tom Wells -- You Are Either with Us or the Patriot League: Philip Roth and The Great American Novel in the Age of Terror / Ron Briley -- American Myth: Zane Grey's Baseball and Manhood / Aaron W. Miller -- Language and the Construction of Masculinity in Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out / Peter Carino -- Thirteen Ways of Looking at Willie Mays: The Production of Presence in Paul Metcalf's "Willie's Throw" / Trey Strecker -- Deconstruction at Bat: Baseball vs. Critical Theory in Northern Exposure's "The Graduate" / David Lavery -- Salvador Dali and the Surrealism of Baseball / Andrew Hazucha -- From Spalding through Beane: A Study of Economic Trendsetters in Baseball / Monique Moyal -- Collecting, Investing and Searching for Perfection / Ron B. Rembert -- Doctor Smoke: Joe Wood, Yale University, and the 1926 Baseball Controversy / Gerald C. Wood -- Jacques Derrida Was a Cubs Fan: Critical Theorists and Their Baseball Teams / Shawn O'Hare -- A Rose by Any Other Name: One Fan's Big-Picture Argument for Electing Pete Rose to the Hall of Fame / Sarah D. Bunting -- Before the Boss: Mike Burke and the CBS Yankees / Thomas D. Veve -- Student Responses to Baeball Literature: Reflections on Course Evaluations and Teaching Experience / Gary Land and Gary Gray -- Old Blue: A Memoir / James Grove -- Jim Bunning's Perfect Game: At the Intersection of Baseball, History and Self / Carl Schinasi.
- ISBN
- 9780786436804 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786436808 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008004084
- 99820493558
- OCLC
- 190850824
- ocn190850824
- SCSB-5408870
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries