Sporting with the Gods
The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5780674 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christian K Messenger, Michael Oriard |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 581-581 |
| Publication date | 1993-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2166999 |
| OpenAlex | W2055467558 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
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 Moby-Dick 9. The 'great games' of politics and business Part IV. Holy Play and the Counterculture: 10. Transcendental play and the theology of sentimentalism 11. Play and the counterculture in the 1920s 12. From beats and hippies to the new age Epilogue Notes Index
Honour · Prologue · American Sports and Literature · Digital Games and Media · Sports, Gender, and Society
A beer a minute in Texas football
Politics of Play
"I Declare War"
Play in(g) international theory
Playing by the book
George W. Bush as the “Man in the Arena”
Cracks in the (Self-Constructed?) Ghetto Walls? Comments on Paul Ward's ‘Last Man Picked’
God, games and national glory
Life is Not a Game
Kyrie Irving, vaccine hesitancy, and the politics of rugged individualism
Notes on Midnight Basketball and the Cultural Politics of Recreation, Race, and At-Risk Urban Youth
Home again—riding along the peloton of Dutch sports literature
Critiquing the "Good Enough" Mother
| Citations per year | 0.39 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 2024 (32) |
| Highly cited | No |