MCGOWAN, LEE.
FOOTBALL IN FICTION [electronic resource]. - [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2019. - 1 online resource
Football in Fiction represents the most comprehensive historical mapping and analysis of novels related to association football (soccer). It offers a theoretically informed field guide, a scholarly cartography of football fiction's uncertain -and until now -only partially explored terrain. Combining an extensive search for texts with up-to-date academic research, journals, surveys, catalogues, and reviews the book demonstrates a topographic perspective of the field - one that captures and establishes its breadth, depth, and distinctive identity. The book uses and adapts two distinct reading models of abstraction, in conjunction with closer textual analyses. Together they assist in realising a set of demonstrable conventions, outline a taxonomy of fictive types, establish the genre's current state of play, and advance the football novel as a form with its own literary history and traditions. This book is a valuable resource for those studying and researching in the areas of the social and cultural aspects of football, sports fiction, sports writing, creative writing, and literary and genre studies. Furthermore, related industry professionals will find this a fascinating read, particularly football writers, fans of the sport, and those interested in sports history and cultural phenomena.
9781000692785 1000692787 9780429344053 0429344058 9781000693140 1000693147 9781000692969 1000692965
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
SPORTS & RECREATION / General
SPORTS & RECREATION / History
Soccer in literature.
Fiction--History and criticism.
Sports literature--History and criticism.
PN56.S635
809.3/93579
FOOTBALL IN FICTION [electronic resource]. - [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2019. - 1 online resource
Football in Fiction represents the most comprehensive historical mapping and analysis of novels related to association football (soccer). It offers a theoretically informed field guide, a scholarly cartography of football fiction's uncertain -and until now -only partially explored terrain. Combining an extensive search for texts with up-to-date academic research, journals, surveys, catalogues, and reviews the book demonstrates a topographic perspective of the field - one that captures and establishes its breadth, depth, and distinctive identity. The book uses and adapts two distinct reading models of abstraction, in conjunction with closer textual analyses. Together they assist in realising a set of demonstrable conventions, outline a taxonomy of fictive types, establish the genre's current state of play, and advance the football novel as a form with its own literary history and traditions. This book is a valuable resource for those studying and researching in the areas of the social and cultural aspects of football, sports fiction, sports writing, creative writing, and literary and genre studies. Furthermore, related industry professionals will find this a fascinating read, particularly football writers, fans of the sport, and those interested in sports history and cultural phenomena.
9781000692785 1000692787 9780429344053 0429344058 9781000693140 1000693147 9781000692969 1000692965
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
SPORTS & RECREATION / General
SPORTS & RECREATION / History
Soccer in literature.
Fiction--History and criticism.
Sports literature--History and criticism.
PN56.S635
809.3/93579