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001 95004433
003 DLC
005 19960621113341.3
008 950606s1995 inu b s001 0 eng
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050 00 $aPS169.B36$bW47 1996
082 00 $a810.9/355$220
100 1 $aWestbrook, Deeanne.
245 10 $aGround rules :$bbaseball & myth /$cDeeanne Westbrook.
260 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$cc1996.
300 $a348 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : 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.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aBaseball stories, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aBaseball in literature.
650 0 $aMyth in literature.
650 0 $aLiterature and anthropology$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.