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Studies in Major Literary Authors Ser.: Sports, Narrative, and Nation in the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Jarom McDonald (2009, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherTaylor & Francis Group
ISBN-100415803039
ISBN-139780415803038
eBay Product ID (ePID)72306714
Product Key Features
Number of Pages168 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameSports, Narrative, and Nation in the Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald
SubjectGeneral, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Sports & Recreation
AuthorJarom McDonald
SeriesStudies in Major Literary Authors Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight11 Oz
Item Length6 in
Item Width9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813/.52
Table Of ContentIntroduction: 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
SynopsisThis 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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