| Description |
348 pages ; 23 cm |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Baseball in literature.
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Baseball stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Literature and anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Myth in literature.
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| LC no. |
95004433 |
| ISBN |
0252022262 (alk. paper) |
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0252065298 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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