03271nam 22005533 450 991091717460332120241125120547.09781771994149(electronic bk.)9781771994132(MiAaPQ)EBC31790007(Au-PeEL)EBL31790007(CKB)36649458300041(DE-B1597)728568(DE-B1597)9781771994149(OCoLC)1474239222(EXLCZ)993664945830004120241125d2024 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHockey on the Moon Imagination and Canada's Game1st ed.Athabasca :Athabasca University Press,2024.©2024.1 online resource (331 pages)Print version: Dopp, Jamie Hockey on the Moon Athabasca : Athabasca University Press,c2024 9781771994132 Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Stompin' Tom Versus Big Al: Two Imaginative Versions of the Game -- 2. The Fighting Soul of Hockey in Ralph Connor's Glengarry School Days -- 3. Hugh MacLennan and the Two Solitudes of Hockey -- 4. Boys on the Defensive: The Hockey Myth in Scott Young -- 5. Belief and Doubt in Roch Carrier's "The Hockey Sweater -- 6. Haunted by Bill Spunska: Roy MacGregor's The Last Season -- 7. Blarney's Version: The Comic Spirit of Hockey in Paul Quarrington's King Leary -- 8. Hockey as a Gateway to the Underworld in Wayne Johnston's The Divine Ryans -- 9. Playing with the Hero in Richard Harrison's Hero of the Play -- 10. Hockey, Zen, and the Art of Bill Gaston's The Good Body -- 11. Cara Hedley's Twenty Miles and the Challenge of the Hockey Barbie -- 12. The Faustian Bargain of the Athlete-Hero in Randall Maggs's Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems -- 13. Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse: Reimagining the Home Game -- Conclusion: Return to the Moon -- Publication Credits -- Index.Fantasy and reality come together in sports and Jamie Dopp argues that nowhere is this blurring of the borders of reality more evident than in Canadian hockey. Using imagination as a unifying theme, Dopp offers in-depth analyses of key texts of hockey literature, with a focus on how these texts reveal the imaginative possibilities of the game.Canadian literature20th centuryHistory and criticismCanadian literature21st centuryHistory and criticismHockey in literatureHockey stories, CanadianHistory and criticismImagination in literatureLITERARY CRITICISM / CanadianbisacshCanadian literatureHistory and criticism.Canadian literatureHistory and criticism.Hockey in literature.Hockey stories, CanadianHistory and criticism.Imagination in literature.LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian.Dopp Jamie1780295MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910917174603321Hockey on the Moon4304121UNINA