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Title

Sport inside out : readings in literature and philosophy / edited by David L. Vanderwerken and Spencer K. Wertz.

Publication

Fort Worth : Texas Christian University Press, ©1985.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Vanderwerken, David L.
• Wertz, Spencer K.

Description

xi, 782 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Sports > Philosophy
• Sports in literature
• Sports in literature
• Sports > Philosophy
• Literatur
• Philosophie
• Sport
• Literatur
• Philosophie
• Sport

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [767]-769.

Contents

• Part I : Sport and the Individual -- The Eighty-Yard Run / Irwin Shaw -- The Ball Really Carries in the Cactus League Because the Air Is Dry / Glendon Swarthout -- The Poet Tries to Turn in His Jock / David Hilton -- Roller Ball Murder / William Harrison -- Fifty Grand / Ernest Hemingway -- Sport Is a Western Yoga / Adam Smith -- What We Know When We Know a Game / Margaret Steel -- Distancing : An Essay on Abstract Thinking in Sport Performances / R. Scott Kretchmar -- The Exemplary Spectator / Don DeLillo -- For the Death of Vince Lombardi / James Dickey -- Night Game / Rolfe Humphries -- Obsessed with Sport / Joseph Epstein -- Frank Gifford and Me / Frederick Exley -- Fans / George Vecsey -- Violence : Out of Hand in the Stands / Bil Gilbert and Lisa Twyman -- The Interior Stadium / Roger Angell -- Wordsworth in the Bleachers : The Baseball Essays of Roger Angell / A. James Memmott -- The Interior Stadium : Enhancing the Illusion / Harold J. VanderZwaag -- Ishmael in Arlis / Gary Gay -- Lines on the Transpontine Madness / Roger Kahn -- Regional Religions / Michael Novak -- Pop Art and the American Dream / Edwin H. Cady -- Human Equality in Sports / Peter S. Wenz -- Part II : Sport and Society -- Monday / Peter Gent -- The Unreality and Moral Superiority of Football / Alex C. Michalos -- The Illusions of a Football Fan : A Reply to Michalos / John McMurtry -- In Defense of the Competitive Urge / Gerald R. Ford -- Game-Face / Dan Jenkins -- Baseball and the American Dream / George Grella -- Playing to Win : How Much Should It Hurt? / Drew A. Hyland -- Part III : The Meanings of Sport -- God is a big white baseball / Jack Spicer -- The Sacred and the Secular / Allen Guttmann -- The Sort of Sacred, Sometimes Ritual / Edwin H. Cady -- Religion in Sport / Frank Deford -- The Natural Religion / Michael Novak -- Wilderness Travel as an Art and as a Paradigm for Outdoor Education / Alan R. Drengson -- Pre-game / Bernard Malamud -- To Wilt Chamberlain / Tom Meschery -- Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu / John Updike -- Meanings of the Body / Lynne Belaief -- Herculean "Myth" Aspects of Athletics / Hans Lenk.
• Part III : The Meanings of Sport [continued] -- Tao in the Yankee Stadium Bleachers / John Updike -- The Philosopher in Us / William Harper -- Philosopher in the Playground : Notes on the Meaning of Sport / Peter Heinegg -- Deception, Sportsmanship, and Ethics / Kathleen M. Pearson -- Why the Good Foul Is Not Good / Warren Fraleigh -- Can Cheaters Play the Game? / Craig K. Lehman -- Prolegomena Toward an Analytic Philosophy of Sport / Hans Lenk -- Action Theory and the Social Scientific Analysis of Sport Actions / Hans Lenk -- Baseball and Writing / Marianne Moore -- To an Athlete Turned Poet / Peter Meinke -- The Double Play / Robert Wallace -- Aesthetics Applies to Sports as Well as to the Arts / Paul G. Kuntz -- Artistic Creativity in Sport / Spencer K. Wertz -- Aesthetic Incontinence in Sport / Richard F. Galvin -- Comments on Galvin / Spencer K. Wertz -- Part IV : The Dimensions of Sport -- The Writing of Sports / Randall Poe -- Jocks, Hacks, Flacks, and Pricks / Michael Novak -- Humble Howard / Michael Novak -- Foul Play : Sports Metaphors as Public Doublespeak / Francine Hardaway -- Of Team Players and Sky Hooks : The Infiltration of Sports Language in Politics / Richard Lipsky -- Philosophical Analysis at Work : In Search of the Elusive Clutch Hitter / Michael Martin -- Philosophical Analysis and Normative Judgments on Clutch Hitters : A Reaction to Michael Martin / Warren Fraleigh -- Comments on Fraleigh / Michael Martin -- Here's the Info on Hitters Who Get Tough When the Going Gets Tough / Henry Hecht -- The Perfect Game / Robert Coover -- Ball / Sam Koperwas -- My Father Dreams of Baseball / Laurence Lieberman -- The Fantasy World of Baseball / Jim Brosnan -- The Metaphysics of Baseball / Roland Garrett -- The Asylum Keepers / Philip Roth -- The Coach Who Didn't Teach Civics / Ernest W. Speed, Jr. -- A New Busher Breaks In / Ring Lardner -- The Wool Market / Dan Jenkins -- Polo Grounds / Rolfe Humphries -- Football Red and Baseball Green / Murray Ross -- Sacred Space, Sacred Time / Michael Novak -- The False Alarm / Mark Harris -- On Chuck Hughes, Dying Young / Barnard Law Collier -- On the Death of the Evansville University Basketball Team in a Plane Crash, December 13, 1977 / Robert W. Hamblin -- Sport and Death / Howard S. Slusher -- Two Expressions of Failure in Sport / Kathy L. Ermler.

ISBN

• 0875650031
• 9780875650036
• 0875650066
• 9780875650067

LCCN

84023951

OCLC

• ocm11346290
• 11346290
• SCSB-1152215

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library