Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction —— Hawthorne to Faulkner

----- 美国小说中的体育与游戏精神：霍桑到福克纳

ISBN: 9780231516617 出版年：1983 页码：390 Messenger, Christian Columbia University Press

In this comprehensive and insightful study, Christian K. Messenger contends that American writers have always created characters at play in the sure knowledge that to be active in sport in America is to be in touch with its people, their traditions, and their fantasy lives. This is the first inclusive critical study of sport in American fiction with chapters on individual authors such as Hawthorne, Lardner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner, as well as studies of sport in the literature of the frontier and in boys' formula fiction. A work of literary criticism, Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction also draws on the cultural history of American sport and leisure and on a century of American literature.