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- catalog abstract ""Sporting with the Gods examines the rhetoric of "game" and "play" and "sport" in American culture from the time of the Puritans to the 1980s. Focusing on writers and public figures who dominated public discourse, Oriard shows how the trope of game and play in fiction and in religious, social, and economic writings can be used to graph changes in the religious and social climate from the Puritans through the Transcendentalists to the Social Darwinists and from the Beats and hippies to the New Age spiritualists of the present decade. He also uses the trope to graph the shifting attitudes toward work (and play) in the game of business, as the United States moved to industrial capitalism and then to a postindustrial society of consumerism and leisure. The result is a history of this country from its inception, through the lens of a single trope, resonating with implications at every strata of American culture." --from back cover.".
- catalog contributor b2977793.
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization.".
- catalog created "1991.".
- catalog date "1991".
- catalog date "1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1991.".
- catalog description ""Sporting with the Gods examines the rhetoric of "game" and "play" and "sport" in American culture from the time of the Puritans to the 1980s. Focusing on writers and public figures who dominated public discourse, Oriard shows how the trope of game and play in fiction and in religious, social, and economic writings can be used to graph changes in the religious and social climate from the Puritans through the Transcendentalists to the Social Darwinists and from the Beats and hippies to the New Age spiritualists of the present decade. He also uses the trope to graph the shifting attitudes toward work (and play) in the game of business, as the United States moved to industrial capitalism and then to a postindustrial society of consumerism and leisure. The result is a history of this country from its inception, through the lens of a single trope, resonating with implications at every strata of American culture." --from back cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 485-558) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 579 p. :".
- catalog identifier "052139113X".
- catalog isPartOf "Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; [45]".
- catalog issued "1991".
- catalog issued "1991.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "810.9/355 20".
- catalog subject "American literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English language United States Rhetoric.".
- catalog subject "Games in literature.".
- catalog subject "Metaphor.".
- catalog subject "PS169.P55 O75 1991".
- catalog subject "Play in literature.".
- catalog subject "Popular culture United States.".
- catalog subject "Sports in literature.".
- catalog title "Sporting with the gods : the rhetoric of play and game in American culture / Michael Oriard.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".