Anti-Sport Sentiments in Literature: Batting for the Opposition

by John Bale

This book draws on literature, specifically on the writings of selected novelists and poets to widen an existing anti-sport discourse to include hitherto excluded voices from the world of literature.

The book commences with a review of exiting pro- and anti-sport discourses and then proceeds to examine, in turn, the written works of five eminent authors, excavating from their writings their anti-sports rhetorics. These writers are Lewis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415596254
• ISBN13: 9780415596251
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages