The Sporting spirit : athletes in literature and life / edited by Robert J. Higgs and Neil D. Isaacs ; with a foreword by Heywood Hale Broun.

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Book
Language
English
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New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1977.
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xiii, 304 pages ; 22 cm

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    Includes index.
    Bibliographic references
    Bibliography: p. 291-296.
    Contents
    • from Olympia 8 / Pindar
    • Autolycus / Euripides.
    • Contending myths : the athlete in literature. A baseball experiment / Mark Twain
    • Dream of a baseball star / Gregory Corso
    • Jamesie / J.F. Powers
    • At the ball game / William Carlos Williams
    • The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw
    • Say good-bye to Big Daddy / Randall Jarrell
    • from University days / James Thurber
    • Superman ; Ace in the hole / John Updike
    • The jump shooter / Dennis Trudell
    • from The Aeneid. The boxing match / Virgil
    • Crowd pleaser / Budd Schulberg
    • The jockey / Carson McCullers
    • To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman
    • The capital of the world / Ernest Hemingway
    • A caddy's diary / Ring Lardner
    • A mighty runner (variation of a Greek theme) / E.A. Robinson
    • Runner / W.H. Auden.
    • First person singular : the athlete speaks. Open letter to a young Negro / Jesse Owens and Paul G. Neimark
    • Testament of a samurai / Yukio Mishima
    • Adventures of a Y.M.C.A. lad / H.L. Mencken
    • Mind over water / Diana Nyad
    • from Instant replay / Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap
    • First practice / Gary Gildner
    • My fights with Jack Dempsey / Gene Tunney
    • Running as a spiritual experience / Mike Spino.
    • Sideline boos and cheers : social and cultural criticism. Wisdom over strength / Xenophanes
    • from Satire VI. Female athletes / Juvenal
    • Cheerleader / Jim Wayne Miller
    • from The book of the courtier / Baldassare Castiglione
    • Value of an athletic training / Theodore Roosevelt
    • Athletics : "--unquenchably the same"? / Byron R. White
    • Now I went down to the ringside and little Henry Armstrong was there / Kenneth Patchen
    • The death of Benny Paret / Norman Mailer
    • An innocent at ringside / William Faulkner
    • "Perfect day--a day of prowess" / Robert Frost
    • Baseball and writing / Marianne Moore
    • Some questions on sports / Marianne Moore and George Plimpton
    • Prize fighters and authors / Sherwood Anderson
    • from Autobiography with letters. Gene Tunney / William Lyon Phelps
    • The myth of the racially superior athlete / Harry Edwards
    • On Hurricane Jackson / Alan Dugan
    • The Chinese boxes of Muhammad Ali / Budd Schulberg
    • 400-meter freestyle / Maxine W. Kumin
    • Symbolic forms of movement : the feminine image in sports / Eleanor Metheny
    • The stadium / William Heyen
    • Sport and society : USSR vs. U.S. / Henry W. Morton
    • The importance of participation / John F. Kennedy.
    • Post-game rumbles : essays on history and philosophy. from The republic / Plato
    • The ancient ways / Edith Hamilton
    • from Homo Ludens. The play-element in contemporary civilization / Johan Huizinga
    • from A study of history / Arnold Toynbee
    • from History of the United States during the Jefferson and Madison administrations / Henry Adams
    • from The theory of the leisure class. Survivals of prowess / Thorstein Veblen
    • A mad fight song for William S. Carpenter, 1966 / James Wright
    • from The theory of the leisure class. Belief in luck / Thorstein Veblen
    • The old horse player / Damon Runyon
    • Sport and the 'bitch-goddess' / Lewis Mumford
    • Ripper Collins' legacy / Don Johnson
    • from Understanding media. Games : the extensions of man / Marshall McLuhan
    • from Sport : a philosophic inquiry. The urge to win / Paul Weiss
    • To Nikê / Rainer Maria Rilke
    • Sport as a human absurdity / Howard S. Slusher.
    ISBN
    • 0155833510
    • 9780155833517
    LCCN
    76016435
    OCLC
    3003979
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