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- catalog abstract ""The Sports Immortals is the first serious and scholarly attempt to explain the psychology of hero-worship in sport. While others (most notably Michael Oriard) have studied the heroes and villains of sports literature, this book is the first study of the very similar creation of gods and demi-gods in the arenas of real games." "After presenting as groundwork an overview of the classic theorists - seminal thinkers such as Jung, Rank, Frazer, Jessie Weston, and Ernest Becker - The Sports Immortals goes on to show how the sports public creates heroes and villains in precisely the same way the Greeks filled Olympus with archetypal deities. It shows why Babe Ruth was a hero and Joe Jackson a villain, despite the fact that the former admired and learned from the latter; it explains why John L. Sullivan and Jim Corbett, who were both "gods," were such different "gods." The historical scope of this study extends from that era - the era of Sullivan, in the late nineteenth century - to the present."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12343289.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description ""The Sports Immortals is the first serious and scholarly attempt to explain the psychology of hero-worship in sport. While others (most notably Michael Oriard) have studied the heroes and villains of sports literature, this book is the first study of the very similar creation of gods and demi-gods in the arenas of real games." "After presenting as groundwork an overview of the classic theorists - seminal thinkers such as Jung, Rank, Frazer, Jessie Weston, and Ernest Becker - The Sports Immortals goes on to show how the sports public creates heroes and villains in precisely the same way the Greeks filled Olympus with archetypal deities. It shows why Babe Ruth was a hero and Joe Jackson a villain, despite the fact that the former admired and learned from the latter; it explains why John L. Sullivan and Jim Corbett, who were both "gods," were such different "gods." The historical scope of this study extends from that era - the era of Sullivan, in the late nineteenth century - to the present."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-161) and index.".
- catalog extent "170 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Sports immortals.".
- catalog identifier "0879726695".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sports immortals.".
- catalog isPartOf "Sports and culture series.".
- catalog isPartOf "Sports and culture".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press,".
- catalog relation "Sports immortals.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Athletes United States.".
- catalog subject "GV706.5 .W54 1994".
- catalog subject "Hero worship United States.".
- catalog subject "Sports Sociological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Sports United States Sociological aspects.".
- catalog title "The sports immortals : deifying the American athlete / Peter Williams.".
- catalog type "text".