Sport as symbol :
Womack, Mari.
Sport as symbol : images of the athlete in art, literature and song / Mari Womack. - Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2003. - vii, 243 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-237) and index.
1. Sport as symbol. Heroic dramas and athletic actors -- 2. The adversary in nature. The hunt: power of life and death -- The hunt domesticated: ritual origins of the bullfight -- 3. The human adversary. Combat sports: the socialization of conflict -- War games -- 4. The adversary within. Transcending time and space -- Metaphors of love, death, and rebirth -- 5. Symbolic actors and social dramas. High priests and super stars.
0786415797 (illustrated case binding : alk. paper)
2003012455
Sports in art.
NX650.S83 / W66 2003
704.9/49796
Sport as symbol : images of the athlete in art, literature and song / Mari Womack. - Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2003. - vii, 243 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-237) and index.
1. Sport as symbol. Heroic dramas and athletic actors -- 2. The adversary in nature. The hunt: power of life and death -- The hunt domesticated: ritual origins of the bullfight -- 3. The human adversary. Combat sports: the socialization of conflict -- War games -- 4. The adversary within. Transcending time and space -- Metaphors of love, death, and rebirth -- 5. Symbolic actors and social dramas. High priests and super stars.
0786415797 (illustrated case binding : alk. paper)
2003012455
Sports in art.
NX650.S83 / W66 2003
704.9/49796