Jarom Mcdonald

Sports, Narrative, and Nation in the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the ways F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed spectator sports as working to help structure ideologies of class, community and nationhood, this book shows how narratives of attending sports and being a `fan¿ cultivate communities of spectatorship

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780415803038
• ISBN-10: 0415803039
• Artikelnr.: 26678593

Autorenporträt

Jarom McDonald is Associate Research Professor and Director of the Office of Digital Humanities at Brigham Young University, US.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Fitzgerald
Sport
and Social Interaction Chapter One: We Are a Very Special Country: The Narrativization of Sport and the Fiction of a Classless Nation Chapter Two: Gridiron Paradise: Princetonian Football
American Class Chapter Three: Idol of the Whole Body of Young Men: Football
Heroes
and the Performance of Social Status Chapter Four: Perfunctory Patriotism: Tom Buchanan
Meyer Wolfshiem
and America's Game Coda: Of Habitus and Homecoming Notes Bibliography Index