Michael Oriard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1165986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Oriard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Oriard |
| SIGNATURE | ORIARD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Chronicle of a (Football) Death Foretold
Football today, most conspicuously at the professional level (National Football League), is the economic and cultural colossus of American spectator sports. To speak of its ‘life cycle’, then, would seem nonsensical: although it has a clear ‘birth’, to speak of its ‘death’ might seem ridiculously premature. Yet, recent developments make imagining such a death possible. In this essay, I will explore two current controversies – over ‘athletes’ righ…
Reading Football
Home Teams
Research Article| April 01 1996 Home Teams Michael Oriard Michael Oriard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (2): 471–500. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-2-471 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Oriard; Home Teams. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 1996; 95 (2): 471–500. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-2-47…
Reading Football
Reading Football
Journal Article Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle. By Michael Oriard. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993 and Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football. By Murray Sperber. New York: Holt, 1993 Get access Robin Lester Robin Lester Francis W. Parker School and Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Press Games
Sporting with the Gods
Preface Prologue: 'The game and the nation' Part I. Sportsmen and Gamesmen in the Nineteenth Century: 1. Play, sport and western mythmaking 2. Play, sport and southern honour 3. Gender and the game Part II. Raising the Stakes: 4. Playing the game of life 5. 'The game' in business fiction 6. Desperate players and the sport of the gods Part III. Twentieth-Century Legacies: 7. Sportsmen and gamesmen in twentieth-century fiction 8. In the wake of Mob…
Sport and the Spirit of Play in Contemporary American Fiction
Dreaming of Heroes
Professional Football as Cultural Myth
The Athlete‐Hero and Democratic Ideals
Chronicle of a (Football) Death Foretold
Football today, most conspicuously at the professional level (National Football League), is the economic and cultural colossus of American spectator sports. To speak of its ‘life cycle’, then, would seem nonsensical: although it has a clear ‘birth’, to speak of its ‘death’ might seem ridiculously premature. Yet, recent developments make imagining such a death possible. In this essay, I will explore two current controversies – over ‘athletes’ righ…
Reading Football
Journal Article Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle. By Michael Oriard. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993 and Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football. By Murray Sperber. New York: Holt, 1993 Get access Robin Lester Robin Lester Francis W. Parker School and Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
The Athlete‐Hero and Democratic Ideals
Professional Football as Cultural Myth
Dreaming of Heroes
Sport and the Spirit of Play in Contemporary American Fiction
Sporting with the Gods
Preface Prologue: 'The game and the nation' Part I. Sportsmen and Gamesmen in the Nineteenth Century: 1. Play, sport and western mythmaking 2. Play, sport and southern honour 3. Gender and the game Part II. Raising the Stakes: 4. Playing the game of life 5. 'The game' in business fiction 6. Desperate players and the sport of the gods Part III. Twentieth-Century Legacies: 7. Sportsmen and gamesmen in twentieth-century fiction 8. In the wake of Mob…
Press Games
Reading Football
Reading Football
Journal Article Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle. By Michael Oriard. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993 and Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football. By Murray Sperber. New York: Holt, 1993 Get access Robin Lester Robin Lester Francis W. Parker School and Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Home Teams
Research Article| April 01 1996 Home Teams Michael Oriard Michael Oriard Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1996) 95 (2): 471–500. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-2-471 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Oriard; Home Teams. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 April 1996; 95 (2): 471–500. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-95-2-47…
Reading Football
Chronicle of a (Football) Death Foretold
Football today, most conspicuously at the professional level (National Football League), is the economic and cultural colossus of American spectator sports. To speak of its ‘life cycle’, then, would seem nonsensical: although it has a clear ‘birth’, to speak of its ‘death’ might seem ridiculously premature. Yet, recent developments make imagining such a death possible. In this essay, I will explore two current controversies – over ‘athletes’ righ…
Sports, Gender, and Society (7 works) · Football (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · American football (5 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · American Sports and Literature (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Digital Games and Media (4 works)