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ISBN: 0813108535 0813158060 9780813158068 1322597359 9781322597355 0813119235 9780813119236 Year: 1995 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky,
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From the worship of Michael Jordan to the downfall of O.J. Simpson, it has become clear that sports and sports heroes have assumed a role in American society far out of proportion to their traditional value. In this powerful critique of present-day American popular culture, Robert J. Higgs examines the complex and increasingly pervasive control that sports wield in shaping the national self-image. He provides a thoughtful history and analysis of how sports and religion have become intertwined and offers a stinging indictment of the sports-religion-media-education complex.Beginning with the pla
College sports --- Sports --- 796.011.2 --- 796.011.2 Sport en religie --- Sport en religie --- Field sports --- Pastimes --- Recreations --- Recreation --- Athletics --- Games --- Outdoor life --- Physical education and training --- College athletics --- Collegiate sports --- Intercollegiate athletics --- Intercollegiate sports --- Universities and colleges --- University athletics --- University sports --- School sports --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity --- United States --- Social life and customs. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- 796.011.2 Sport en religie. Theologie en religie --- Sport en religie. Theologie en religie
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ISBN: 9780813162997 0813162998 0813152488 9780813152486 0813188008 Year: 1981 Publisher: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky,
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To examine the social and cultural significance of the athlete hero in American literature, Robert J. Higgs turns to the works of Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams.Higgs views the athlete in literature not as an artistic creation but as one who reflects the tastes, attainments, beliefs, and ideals of his society. The athletes he describes as Apollonian are the know-it-alls, of whom Lardner's Busher Keefe is an example; the Dyonisian, as exemplified by Irwin Shaw's Christian Darling, wor
Sports stories --- Athletes in literature. --- American literature --- Sports --- Fiction --- History and criticism.
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ISBN: 0313213615 Year: 1982 Publisher: Westport (Conn.): Greenwood
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ISBN: 0313003629 9780313003622 0313308713 9780313308710 Year: 1999 Publisher: Westport, Conn. : London : Greenwood Press, Bloomsbury Publishing,
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Western films --- Heroes in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism.
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ISBN: 0804462712 Year: 1975 Publisher: New York Ungar : Appalachian Consortium Press
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ISBN: 0155833510 Year: 1977 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich
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Sports --- Sports --- Literary collections
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