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"To examine the social and cultural significance of the athlete hero in American literature, Robert J. Higgs turns to the works of Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams. Higgs views the athlete in literature not as an artistic creation but as one who reflects the tastes, attainments, beliefs, and ideals of his society. The athletes he describes...
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Messenger contends that American writers have created characters at play in the knowledge that to be active in sports in America is to be in touch with the people, their traditions and their fantasy lives. A work of literary criticism, the book also draws on the cultural history of American sport and leisure and on a century of American popular literature.
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