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Sporting Lives: Metaphor and Myth in American Sports Autobiographies (SPORTS & AMERICAN CULTURE)
James W. Pipkin
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Description for Sporting Lives: Metaphor and Myth in American Sports Autobiographies (SPORTS & AMERICAN CULTURE)
Hardcover. Examining two realms of sports and autobiography, this work looks at recurring patterns found in athletes' accounts of their lives and sporting experiences, examining language, metaphor, rhetorical strategies, and other elements to analyze sports from the inside out. It shows that the meaning of sports is intertwined with the telling. Num Pages: 184 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGSA; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 413.
Sometimes the crack of the bat or the roar of the crowd fails to capture the meaning of sports as athletes themselves understand it. Books about sports have ignored this dimension of the subject, particularly the athletes' own autobiographical accounts. In ""Sporting Lives"", the first book to examine the two popular realms of sports and autobiography, James Pipkin looks at recurring patterns found in athletes' accounts of their lives and sporting experiences, examining language, metaphor, rhetorical strategies, and other elements to analyze sports from the inside out.""Sporting Lives"" takes a fresh look at memoirs from baseball, football, basketball, golf, and ... Read more
Sometimes the crack of the bat or the roar of the crowd fails to capture the meaning of sports as athletes themselves understand it. Books about sports have ignored this dimension of the subject, particularly the athletes' own autobiographical accounts. In ""Sporting Lives"", the first book to examine the two popular realms of sports and autobiography, James Pipkin looks at recurring patterns found in athletes' accounts of their lives and sporting experiences, examining language, metaphor, rhetorical strategies, and other elements to analyze sports from the inside out.""Sporting Lives"" takes a fresh look at memoirs from baseball, football, basketball, golf, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826217790
SKU
V9780826217790
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99-15
About James W. Pipkin
James W. Pipkin is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston and the editor of English and German Romanticism: Cross-Currents and Controversies.
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