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Author Pipkin, James W., 1944-

Title Sporting Lives : Metaphor and Myth in American Sports Autobiographies / James W. Pipkin
Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 161 pages)
Series Sports and American culture series
Sports and American culture series.
Contents "The echoing green" -- Body songs -- Magic : the performing body -- The end of autumn -- "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" : Dennis Rodman and the contemporary athlete as postmodern celebrity
Summary "Examines autobiographies by athletes such as Wilt Chamberlain, Babe Ruth, Martina Navratilova, and Dennis Rodman, and analyzes common themes and recurring patterns in the accounts of their lives and sporting experiences"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-155) and index
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Subject Athletes -- United States -- Biography
Autobiographies -- United States
Sports -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
Athletes
Autobiographies
Sports
Selbstdarstellung
Sportler
United States
USA
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007042564
ISBN 9780826266415
082626641X