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- catalog abstract "Timothy Morris examines the cultural implications of baseball novels, focusing on four themes - assimilation, heterosexuality, language, and meritocracy - from among many possibilities "because they are particularly problematic issues for America and Americanists in the mid-1990s." While Making the Team deals with canonical works such as The Natural and Bang the Drum Slowly, it devotes equal attention to juvenile novels by John Tunis (The Kid from Tomkinsville, Young Razzle) and others. Throughout, Morris considers how the ideals of manliness, courage, competitiveness, athleticism, whiteness, and standard English - of "Americanness" in its many facets - have been embodied in fictional characters for readers of different ages and in different eras. He concludes with a chapter that asks, "What does it mean to be 'literary'?" What distinguishes "high art" from a baseball novel, or a mystery, or a romance novel, or pornography? Making the Team suggests that drawing the line may be a more vital concern - not just for scholars, but for Americans at large - than anything critics have argued about for a very long time.".
- catalog contributor b10236773.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Everybody wants to play for the Yankees -- "I do not mean fairy love" -- "I was in America and my job was to speak English" -- Hitting the bell curve -- But is it literature?".
- catalog description "He concludes with a chapter that asks, "What does it mean to be 'literary'?" What distinguishes "high art" from a baseball novel, or a mystery, or a romance novel, or pornography? Making the Team suggests that drawing the line may be a more vital concern - not just for scholars, but for Americans at large - than anything critics have argued about for a very long time.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-186) and index.".
- catalog description "Timothy Morris examines the cultural implications of baseball novels, focusing on four themes - assimilation, heterosexuality, language, and meritocracy - from among many possibilities "because they are particularly problematic issues for America and Americanists in the mid-1990s." While Making the Team deals with canonical works such as The Natural and Bang the Drum Slowly, it devotes equal attention to juvenile novels by John Tunis (The Kid from Tomkinsville, Young Razzle) and others. Throughout, Morris considers how the ideals of manliness, courage, competitiveness, athleticism, whiteness, and standard English - of "Americanness" in its many facets - have been embodied in fictional characters for readers of different ages and in different eras.".
- catalog extent "xii, 190 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Making the team.".
- catalog identifier "0252022947 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0252065972 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Making the team.".
- catalog isPartOf "Sport and society".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog relation "Making the team.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813.009/355 20".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Baseball in literature.".
- catalog subject "Baseball stories, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Bildungsromans, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Bildungsromans.".
- catalog subject "Children's stories, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Elite (Social sciences) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Heterosexuality in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Maturation (Psychology) in literature.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, American, in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS374.B37 M35 1997".
- catalog subject "Psychological fiction, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Social status in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Everybody wants to play for the Yankees -- "I do not mean fairy love" -- "I was in America and my job was to speak English" -- Hitting the bell curve -- But is it literature?".
- catalog title "Making the team : the cultural work of baseball fiction / Timothy Morris.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".