Not Hockey: Critical Essays on Canada's Other Sport Literature

This carefully curated collection of essays explores the meaning of sports found in Canadian sports literature.

How do sports differ from recreational activities that require skill? Do sports demand that someone win? At what point do sports become art? Not Hockey skillfully investigates how literature presents sports as a metaphor, a language, and a bodily expression.

Rather than focus on Canada's most famous pastime,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771993774
• ISBN13: 9781771993777
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Athabasca University Press
• Length: 300 Pages