Warren Tormey (34 results)

Pictorial Softcover. Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. First Edition. 13 essays. Minor rubbing on cover, elsewise a bright, clean, tight copy sans other flaws. "This collection of fresh essays examines the intersection that baseball and social class, pointing to the conclusion that America's game, infused from its origins with a democratic mythos and founded on high-minded principles of meritocracy, is nonetheless fraught with problematic class contradictions. Each essayist has explored how class standing has influenced some aspect of the game as experienced by those who play it, those who watch it, those who write about it, and those who market it." 198 pages. LF2. …

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Paperback. Condition: New. This collection of fresh essays examines the intersection of baseball and social class, pointing to the conclusion that America's game, infused from its origins with a democratic mythos and founded on high-minded principles of meritocracy, is nonetheless fraught with problematic class contradictions. Each essayist has explored how class standing has influenced some aspect of the game as experienced by those who play it, those who watch it, those who write about it, and those who market it. The topic of class is an amorphous one and in tying it to baseball the contributors have considered matters of race, education, locality, integration, assimilation, and cultural standing. These elements are crucial to understanding how baseball creates, preserves, reinforces and occasionally assails class divisions among those who watch, play, and own the game.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Baseball In Literature And American Culture Conference Series, 5; 243 pages.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 198 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condition: New. This collection of fresh essays examines the intersection of baseball and social class, pointing to the conclusion that America's game, infused from its origins with a democratic mythos and founded on high-minded principles of meritocracy, is nonetheless fraught with problematic class contradictions. Each essayist has explored how class standing has influenced some aspect of the game as experienced by those who play it, those who watch it, those who write about it, and those who market it. The topic of class is an amorphous one and in tying it to baseball the contributors have considered matters of race, education, locality, integration, assimilation, and cultural standing. These elements are crucial to understanding how baseball creates, preserves, reinforces and occasionally assails class divisions among those who watch, play, and own the game.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2006-2007 edition. 210 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2008-2009 ed. edition. 243 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. pp. vii + 202 2006-2007 ed. edition NO-PA18SEPT2011-KAP.

Condition: New. pp. vii + 235 2008-2009 ed. edition.

Condition: New. Provides a collection of 18 essays, covering a range of topics, including the way major American writers have challenged the pastoral idea of baseball envisioned by Whitman the tension between the game as a business and the game as public trust and the ro.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. The Shield and the Cross | Mining, Metalworking, and the Epic Underworld: The Formation of State Identity to the Anglo Saxon Age | Warren Tormey | Taschenbuch | Englisch | VDM Verlag Dr. Müller | EAN 9783639127676 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The Conference on Baseball in Literature and American Culture has consistently produced a strong body of scholarship since its inception in 1995. Essays presented at the 2008 and 2009 conferences are published in the present work. Topics covered include religion; class and racial dichotomies in the literature of cricket and baseball; re-reading The Natural in the 21st century; the feminist movement; Don DeLillo's Game 6; baseball in Seinfeld; Robert B. Parker; Harry Stein's Hoopla; Negro league owner Tom Wilson's impact on Nashville; Major League Baseball's postwar boom; and overwrought baseball editorials, among others.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This collection of fresh essays examines the intersection of baseball and social class, pointing to the conclusion that America's game, infused from its origins with a democratic mythos and founded on high-minded principles of meritocracy, is nonetheless fraught with problematic class contradictions. Each essayist has explored how class standing has influenced some aspect of the game as experienced by those who play it, those who watch it, those who write about it, and those who market it. The topic of class is an amorphous one and in tying it to baseball the contributors have considered matters of race, education, locality, integration, assimilation, and cultural standing. These elements are crucial to understanding how baseball creates, preserves, reinforces and occasionally assails class divisions among those who watch, play, and own the game.…

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextrnrnExamines the intersection of baseball and social class, pointing to the conclusion that America s game, infused from its origins with a democratic mythos and founded on high-minded principles of meritocracy, is nonetheless fraugh.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Autor/Autorin: Tormey WarrenWarren Tormey, PhD. Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee StatenUniversity. Specialization in Medieval and Renaissancenliterature, sports literature, and in the growing field ofn green criticism. Homebrewer.As sh. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - As shown in the prophetic visions of the Olympiansmiths, who recorded these the arms and armor donnedby epic heroes, or by the weapons of warfare used bythe heroes of post-imperial Germanic epic, metalsconstitute the essential imagistic substance of epic. Drawn from subterranean recesses which shed light onthe economic realities of the epic poet s world, theconjoined motifs of metals and the underworldconstitute one important element in the lineconnecting Homer and Beowulf. The shield serves asthe most dominant illustration of the symbolicpreeminence of metals within a Classical ethos, asdefined first in the tribalism of Homer and later theproto-Christian imperialist leanings of Virgil. Asthe Classical world view gives way to aChristianized, pre-Chivalric world view inpost-imperial Western Europe, the sword prefiguringthe Christian cross replaces the shield as the mosttelling illustration of the importance of metals andmetalworking in epic literature, as shownparticularly in Beowulf. This study represents aneffort to understand the economic and socialdimensions that are implied in the progress of thisimaginative transformation. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Baseball and Social Class | Essays on the Democratic Game That Isn't | Ronald E. Kates (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2012 | McFarland | EAN 9780786472390 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …

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