The aesthetics, poetics, and rhetoric of soccer / edited by Ridvan Askin, Catherine Diederich, and Aline Bieri.

Other author Askin, Ridvan.
Other author Diederich, Catherine.
Other author Bieri, Aline.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondson ; New York : Routledge, 2018.
Descriptionviii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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SeriesRoutledge research in sport, culture and society
Contents Pep talk -- Klopp's heideggerianism -- [simon critchley] -- Taking the field -- Introduction: aesthetics, poetics, rhetoric, soccer -- [ridvan askin, catherine diederich, and aline bieri] -- First half: aesthetics -- Good games as athletic beauty: why association football is rightly called the beautiful game -- [emily ryall] -- Appreciating the not-obviously-beautiful game -- [adam kadlac] -- england till i die: soccer, national identity, and contemporary art -- [daniel haxall] -- The messianic manager in novels by david peace -- [david kilpatrick] -- Half time: poetics -- The man in the dugout: fictional football managers and the politics of resistance -- [cyprian piskurek] -- The importance of trivial oppositions in football fandom: the narcissism of minor differences in derby games -- [kristof k.p. vanhoutte] -- Stupidity in football -- [philip schauss] -- Second half: rhetoric -- caveman stuff: ireland's soccer struggle with identity, style, and success -- [michael o'hara and connell vaughan] -- The beautiful and the grim: british cultural discourses of the eastern european game [blanka blagojevic] -- text sex with becks: football celebrities, popular press, and the spectacle of language [jan chovanec] -- Multimodal construction of soccer-related humor on twitter and instagram -- [thomas messerli and di yu] -- Multilingualism in football teams -- [eva lavric and jasmin steiner] -- List of contributors.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2017059165
ISBN9780815385738 (hardback)