An edition of Ground Rules
(1995)
Ground rules
baseball & myth
by Deeanne Westbrook
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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 literaturePlaces
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Ground Rules: BASEBALL AND MYTH
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Ground Rules: Baseball and Myth
March 1, 1996, University of Illinois Press
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Ground rules: baseball & myth
1995, University of Illinois Press
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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