Pour le sport: physical culture in French and Francophone literature
Avatars of sport in Medieval and Early Modern French literature / John McClelland -- Are mountaineers Romantics? the art of viewing and climbing in nineteenth-century France / Pierre-Olaf Schut -- "Tennis killed me": sport as failed ritual in the works of Prosper Mérimée / Corry Cropper --...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Liverpool
Liverpool University Press
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
French language
/ Literature
/ Sports (Motif)
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Literature B French language B Sports |
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Table of Contents |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781800857391 |
| Summary: | Avatars of sport in Medieval and Early Modern French literature / John McClelland -- Are mountaineers Romantics? the art of viewing and climbing in nineteenth-century France / Pierre-Olaf Schut -- "Tennis killed me": sport as failed ritual in the works of Prosper Mérimée / Corry Cropper -- Henri Desgrange, cycling, and modern masculinities / Rebecca Wines -- Barthes, Blondin, and the Tour de France of the Trente Glorieuses / Ruadhán Cooke -- Dominique Braga's literary stride / Thomas Bauer -- Communism, bio-fiction, and the Olympics in Jean Echenoz's Courir / Roxanna Curto -- "She has a great shot!": representations of sport and gender in the French book series Le Petit Nicolas / Cynthia Laborde -- Kourat el Kadem: soccer culture in postcolonial francophone Algerian texts / Christa Jones -- "The gaze always finds Zidane": aesthetics and overdetermination in Toussaint, Delbée, and Gordon and Parreno / Luke Healey -- Reassessing Voivenel's Mon beau rugby / Keith Rathbone -- Corporeal conceptions: body politics, French Republicanism, and sport in banlieue literature / Marshall L. Smith -- Fighting as a trope for flight from conflict: combat sports in Le Débrouillard (N.G.M. Faye) and L'Appel des arénes (Aminata Sow Fall) / Christopher Hogarth |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 332 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-1-80085-689-9 |
