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Playful fictions and fictional players : game, sport, and survival in contemporary American fiction

Title
Playful fictions and fictional players : game, sport, and survival in contemporary American fiction / Neil David Berman.
Author
Berman, Neil David, 1947-
Publication
Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press, 1981.

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Description
112 pages; 23 cm
Series Statement
  • Literary criticism series
  • National university publications
Uniform Title
National university publications. Literary criticism series
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Geschichte 1968-1980
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Sports in literature
  • Play in literature
  • American fiction
  • Play in literature
  • Sports in literature
  • Literatur
  • Sport Motiv
  • USA
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 108-110.
Contents
Playful fictions and fictional players -- Ironic determinism in "Fat city" -- "North Dallas forty": Professionalism and the corruption of play -- "End zone": Play at the brink -- "One on one": Zen and the art of basketball -- "The Universal Baseball Association": Play as personalized myth.
ISBN
  • 0804692653
  • 9780804692656
LCCN
80020230
OCLC
  • ocm06626140
  • 6626140
  • SCSB-5935537
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library