Ground rules : baseball & myth /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Westbrook, Deeanne
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996]
Subjects:	American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Baseball stories, American > History and criticism. Baseball in literature. Myth in literature. Literature and anthropology > United States > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : baseball and myth
The myth of the gap
August Wilson's Fences and the art of bricolage
Paths of glory : baseball, key narratives, and the monomyth
Mark Harris's Bang the drum slowly and the two stories
Dimensions of the field of play
Going back to the mother-land : W. P. Kinsella's The Iowa baseball confederacy and William Kennedy's Ironweed
At play on the fields of the gods : baseball, conversion, and crisis art
Ecstasy and art in Eric Rolfe Greenberg's The celebrant
Bernard Malamud's The natural in the wasteland
Playing god, playing man : J. Henry Waugh in The house of joy
Fathers and sons, blessings, and baseball's myth of atonement
"Every inch a man" : the baseball dwarf
Epilogue : the question of aesthetics : baseball, bricolage, and the beautiful.