Ground rules : baseball & myth / Deeanne Westbrook.

Author/creator Westbrook, Deeanne
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1996.
Description348 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
American literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Baseball stories, American--History and criticism.
Baseball in literature.
Myth in literature.
Literature and anthropology--United States. --History. --20th century.

Contents Introduction : baseball and myth -- The myth of the gap -- August Wilson's Fences and the art of bricolage -- Paths of glory : baseball, key narratives, and the monomyth -- Mark Harris's Bang the drum slowly and the two stories -- Dimensions of the field of play -- Going back to the mother-land : W. P. Kinsella's The Iowa baseball confederacy and William Kennedy's Ironweed -- At play on the fields of the gods : baseball, conversion, and crisis art -- Ecstasy and art in Eric Rolfe Greenberg's The celebrant -- Bernard Malamud's The natural in the wasteland -- Playing god, playing man : J. Henry Waugh in The house of joy -- Fathers and sons, blessings, and baseball's myth of atonement -- "Every inch a man" : the baseball dwarf -- Epilogue : the question of aesthetics : baseball, bricolage, and the beautiful.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 95004433
ISBN0252022262 (alk. paper)
ISBN0252065298 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS169.B36 W47 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold