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Book Title
Sports, Narrative, and Nation in the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgera
ISBN
9780415803038

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN-10
0415803039
ISBN-13
9780415803038
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72306714

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
168 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Sports, Narrative, and Nation in the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Subject
General, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Sports & Recreation
Author
Jarom McDonald
Series
Studies in Major Literary Authors Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
11 Oz
Item Length
6 in
Item Width
9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813/.52
Table Of Content
Introduction: Fitzgerald, Sport, and Social Interaction Chapter One: We Are a Very Special Country: The Narrativization of Sport and the Fiction of a Classless Nation Chapter Two: Gridiron Paradise: Princetonian Football, American Class Chapter Three: Idol of the Whole Body of Young Men: Football, Heroes, and the Performance of Social Status Chapter Four: Perfunctory Patriotism: Tom Buchanan, Meyer Wolfshiem, and America's Game Coda: Of Habitus and Homecoming Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
This study examines the ways that F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed organized spectator sports as working to help structure ideologies of class, community, and nationhood. Situating the study in the landscape of late nineteenth/early twentieth-century American sport culture, Chapter One shows how narratives of attending ballgames, reading or listening to sports media, and being a 'fan,' cultivate communities of spectatorship. Adopting this same framework, the next three chapters explore how Fitzgerald's literary representations of sport culture express the complexities of American society. Chapter Two specifically considers the 'intense and dramatic spectacle' of college football in 'This Side of Paradise' as a means of exploring links between spectatorship, emulation and ideology. Chapter Three continues with college football as its theme, but this time looks at how it is portrayed in Fitzgerald's short stories, in order to scrutinize the relationship between the performative aspects of sport and the performative aspects of social class. Finally, Chapter Four scrutinizes how The Great Gatsby critiques the romantic nationalist ideology of 'America's game' by revealing the class divisions and tensions of baseball's spectator culture., Examining the ways F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed spectator sports as working to help structure ideologies of class, community and nationhood, this book shows how narratives of attending sports and being a 'fan' cultivate communities of spectatorship, This study examines the ways that F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed organized spectator sports as working to help structure ideologies of class, community, and nationhood. Situating the study in the landscape of late nineteenth/early twentieth-century American sport culture, Chapter One shows how narratives of attending ballgames, reading or listening to sports media, and being a 'fan, ' cultivate communities of spectatorship. Adopting this same framework, the next three chapters explore how Fitzgerald's literary representations of sport culture express the complexities of American society. Chapter Two specifically considers the 'intense and dramatic spectacle' of college football in 'This Side of Paradise' as a means of exploring links between spectatorship, emulation and ideology. Chapter Three continues with college football as its theme, but this time looks at how it is portrayed in Fitzgerald's short stories, in order to scrutinize the relationship between the performative aspects of sport and the performative aspects of social class. Finally, Chapter Four scrutinizes how The Great Gatsby critiques the romantic nationalist ideology of 'America's game' by revealing the class divisions and tensions of baseball's spectator culture.

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