The allure of sports in Western culture / edited by John Zilcosky and Marlo A. Burks.
| Other author/creator | Zilcosky, John. |
| Other author/creator | Burks, Marlo A., 1986- |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Toronto, Ontario, Canada ; Buffalo, New York ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2019] |
| Description | viii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Contents | Introduction: the allure of sports / John Zilcosky -- Sports/allure / Grant Farred -- "Allure" constrained by "ethics"? How athletic events have engaged their spectators / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -- The fading allure of Greek athletics / Sofie Remijsen -- Wrestling, or the art of disentangling bodies / John Zilcosky -- The allure and ethics of ancient aesthetics: Hellenism in the modern Olympic movement / Charles Stocking -- Attractive or repugnant? Foot races in eighteenth-century German and Britain / Rebekka von Mallinckrodt -- A well-trained community: gymnastics for the German nation / Wolf Kittler -- Importing a German Kampfsport: the reception and practice of Japanese martial arts in interwar Germany / Sarah Panzer -- The ethics and allure of the foul in football / Annette Vowinckel -- Swimming / Karin Helmstaedt. |
| Abstract | "Whether it is our love of chance and vicarious thrill, our need to release anxiety and aggression, or our appreciation of the arc traced by a ball at a crucial moment - sports draw us in. The Allure of Sports in Western Culture contributes to contemporary debates about the attraction of sports in the West by providing a historical grounding, as well as theoretical perspectives and contextualization. Bringing together the work of literary theorists, historians, and athletes, the volume's dual emphasis allows us to better understand the historical and ideological reasons for the changing nature of sports' allure from Ancient Greece and Rome to the modern Olympics. The findings show that allure is shaped by larger forces such as poverty, wealth, and status; changing moral standards; and political and cultural indoctrination. On the other hand, personal and psychological factors play an equally important, if less tangible role: our love for scandal, the seduction of deception and violence, and the physiological intoxication of watching and participating in sports keep us hooked. At the heart of the volume lies the tension between our love for sport and our knowledge of its only barely hidden cruelty, exploitation, and manipulation."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020303211 |
| ISBN | 9781487504182 (Hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1487504187 (Hardcover) |
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