| European Heroes: Myth, Identity, Sport Contributor(s): Lanfranchi, Pierre (Editor), Holt, Richard (Editor), Mangan, J. A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0714645788 ISBN-13: 9780714645780 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $218.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 1996 Annotation: The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic heroes who have dominated the sporting landscapes of their own countries, including W.G. Grace, Jean Borotra, Max Schmeling, Raymond Kopa and Gina Bartoli. The ambition is to understand what these icons stood for in the eyes of those who watched or read about them. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - Sports & Recreation |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 96006099 |
| Series: Sport in the Global Society |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.7" W x 8.72" (0.87 lbs) 190 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Historians of popular culture have recently been addressing the role of myth, and now it is time that social historians of sport also examined it. The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic heroes who have dominated the sporting landscapes of their own countries. The ambition is to understand what these icons stood for in the eyes of those who watched or read about these vessels into which poured all manner of gender, class and patriotic expectations. |