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Baseball/Literature/Culture : Essays, 2008-2009 (Baseball in Literature and American Culture Conference Series)

Kates, Ronald E. (EDT)/ Tormey, Warren (EDT)
352.17 MYR
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316.96
English

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The Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has consistently produced a strong body of scholarship since its inception in 1995. Essays presented at the 2008 and 2009 conferences are published in the present work. Topics covered include religion; class and racial dichotomies in the literature of cricket and baseball; re-reading The Natural in the 21st century; the feminist movement; Don DeLillo's Game 6; baseball in Seinfeld; Robert B. Parker; Harry Stein's Hoopla; Negro league owner Tom Wilson's impact on Nashville; Major League Baseball's postwar boom; and overwrought baseball editorials, among others.
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Provides a collection of 18 essays, covering a range of topics, including the way major American writers have challenged the pastoral idea of baseball envisioned by Whitman; the tension between the game as a business and the game as public trust; and the role of race and gender in both the game and culture.

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