Hockey on the Moon : Imagination and Canada's Game

• Autore: Dopp Jamie
• Pubblicazione: Athabasca : , : Athabasca University Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (331 pages)
• Soggetto topico: Canadian literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Canadian literature - 21st century - History and criticism; Hockey in literature; Hockey stories, Canadian - History and criticism; Imagination in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Hockey on the Moon
• ISBN: 9781771994149; 9781771994132
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910917174603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II