Ground rules
Subtitle: baseball & myth
By: Deeanne Westbrook.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Baseball stories, American -- History and criticism.; Baseball in literature.; Myth in literature.; Literature and anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : baseball and myth; title: The myth of the gap; title: August Wilson's Fences and the art of bricolage; title: Paths of glory : baseball, key narratives, and the monomyth; title: Mark Harris's Bang the drum slowly and the two stories; title: Dimensions of the field of play; title: Going back to the mother-land : W. P. Kinsella's The Iowa baseball confederacy and William Kennedy's Ironweed; title: At play on the fields of the gods : baseball, conversion, and crisis art; title: Ecstasy and art in Eric Rolfe Greenberg's The celebrant; title: Bernard Malamud's The natural in the wasteland; title: Playing god, playing man : J. Henry Waugh in The house of joy; title: Fathers and sons, blessings, and baseball's myth of atonement; title: "Every inch a man" : the baseball dwarf; title: Epilogue : the question of aesthetics : baseball, bricolage, and the beautiful.