Making the team
the cultural work of baseball fiction
By Morris, Timothy
"Making the team" is published by University of Illinois Press in 1997 - Urbana, it has 190 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Making the team” Metadata:
- Title: Making the team
- Author: Morris, Timothy
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 190
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publish Date: 1997
- Publish Location: Urbana
“Making the team” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ American Baseball stories - American Psychological fiction - American fiction - Assimilation (Sociology) in literature - Baseball in literature - Baseball stories, American - Bildungsromans - Children's stories, American - Elite (Social sciences) in literature - Heterosexuality in literature - History - History and criticism - Literature and society - Maturation (Psychology) in literature - National characteristics, American, in literature - Psychological fiction, American - Social status in literature - American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century - Psychological fiction, history and criticism - National characteristics in literature - Children's literature, history and criticism - American Bildungsromans - 20th century - United States - Bildungsromans, American - Elite (Social Sciences) in literature
- Places: United States
- Time: 20th century
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: xii, 190 p. ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL973237M - OL2347747W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 34676288
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 96010131
- ISBN-13: 9780252022944 - 9780252065972
- ISBN-10: 0252022947 - 0252065972
- All ISBNs: 0252022947 - 0252065972 - 9780252022944 - 9780252065972
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"Making the team" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Everybody wants to play for the Yankees
- 2- "I do not mean fairy love"
- 3- "I was in America and my job was to speak English"
- 4- Hitting the bell curve
- 5- But is it literature?
"Making the team" Description:
The Open Library:
Timothy Morris examines the cultural implications of baseball novels, focusing on four themes - assimilation, heterosexuality, language, and meritocracy - from among many possibilities "because they are particularly problematic issues for America and Americanists in the mid-1990s.". While Making the Team deals with canonical works such as The Natural and Bang the Drum Slowly, it devotes equal attention to juvenile novels by John Tunis (The Kid from Tomkinsville, Young Razzle) and others. Throughout, Morris considers how the ideals of manliness, courage, competitiveness, athleticism, whiteness, and standard English - of "Americanness" in its many facets - have been embodied in fictional characters for readers of different ages and in different eras. He concludes with a chapter that asks, "What does it mean to be 'literary'?" What distinguishes "high art" from a baseball novel, or a mystery, or a romance novel, or pornography? Making the Team suggests that drawing the line may be a more vital concern - not just for scholars, but for Americans at large - than anything critics have argued about for a very long time.
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