An edition of Ground Rules (1995)

Ground rules

baseball & myth

by

  • 1 Want to read
Cover of: Ground rules by Deeanne Westbrook, Deeanne Westbrook
Preview
Borrow Listen

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today
Notes
  • 1 Want to read
Notes

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
July 29, 2024 | History
Edit
An edition of Ground Rules (1995)

Ground rules

baseball & myth

by

  • 1 Want to read

This edition doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one?

Publish Date
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Language
English
Pages
348

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Subjects

American Baseball stories, American literature, Baseball in literature, History, History and criticism, Literature and anthropology, Myth in literature, Mythe dans la littérature, Histoire, Histoire et critique, Base-ball, Littérature américaine, Récits américains, Littérature et anthropologie, Base-ball dans la littérature, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Mythology in literature, Sports in literature

Places

United States

Times

20th century

Showing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?

Edition Availability
Cover of: Ground Rules
Ground Rules: Baseball and Myth
March 1, 1996, University of Illinois Press
Hardcover in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Ground Rules
Ground Rules: BASEBALL AND MYTH
February 1, 1996, University of Illinois Press
Paperback in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Ground rules
Ground rules: baseball & myth
1995, University of Illinois Press
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat

Add another edition?

Book Details

Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Urbana

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/355
Library of Congress
PS169.B36 W47 1996, PS169.B36W47 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
348 p. ;
Number of pages
348

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1273083M
Internet Archive
groundrulesbaseb0000west
ISBN 10
0252022262, 0252065298
LCCN
95004433
OCLC/WorldCat
32737774
Library Thing
1874750
Goodreads
4475756
4460587

Source records

Internet Archive item record
Internet Archive item record
Library of Congress MARC record
Better World Books record
amazon.com record
Promise Item
Better World Books record
marc_columbia MARC record

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

This work does not appear on any lists.

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
July 29, 2024 Edited by MARC Bot import existing book
April 17, 2024 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
January 15, 2023 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
October 29, 2022 Edited by ImportBot import existing book
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from Scriblio MARC record