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Hockey on the Moon : Imagination and Canada's Game
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Athabasca : Athabasca University Press, 2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (331 p.)ISBN:- 9781771994149
- PR9197.35.H63
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Summary: Fantasy and reality come together in sports and Jamie Dopp argues that nowhere is this blurring of the borders of reality more evident than in Canadian hockey. Using imagination as a unifying theme, Dopp offers in-depth analyses of key texts of hockey literature, with a focus on how these texts reveal the imaginative possibilities of the gamePPN: PPN: 1919908684Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Stompin' Tom Versus Big Al: Two Imaginative Versions of the Game -- 2. The Fighting Soul of Hockey in Ralph Connor's Glengarry School Days -- 3. Hugh MacLennan and the Two Solitudes of Hockey -- 4. Boys on the Defensive: The Hockey Myth in Scott Young -- 5. Belief and Doubt in Roch Carrier's "The Hockey Sweater -- 6. Haunted by Bill Spunska: Roy MacGregor's The Last Season -- 7. Blarney's Version: The Comic Spirit of Hockey in Paul Quarrington's King Leary
8. Hockey as a Gateway to the Underworld in Wayne Johnston's The Divine Ryans -- 9. Playing with the Hero in Richard Harrison's Hero of the Play -- 10. Hockey, Zen, and the Art of Bill Gaston's The Good Body -- 11. Cara Hedley's Twenty Miles and the Challenge of the Hockey Barbie -- 12. The Faustian Bargain of the Athlete-Hero in Randall Maggs's Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems -- 13. Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse: Reimagining the Home Game -- Conclusion: Return to the Moon -- Publication Credits -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R
S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
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