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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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English
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New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ©1977.
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xiii, 304 pages ; 22 cm
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PN6071.S62S67
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Higgs, Robert J., 1932-2015
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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.
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ISBN
0155833510
9780155833517
LCCN
76016435
OCLC
3003979
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