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
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