Sport as a Cultural Hero-System: What Price Glory?
作者:
SegraveJeffreyO.,
期刊:
Quest
(Taylor Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 45,
issue 2
页码: 182-196
ISSN:0033-6297
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1080/00336297.1993.10484083
出版商: Taylor&Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
This paper addresses the fundamental question: What price is society prepared to pay for the fictional fabrication of the cultural hero-system of sport? Based on a critical analysis of selected literary works by John Updike, Irwin Shaw, and Jason Miller, this paper argues that the existential crises from which character emerges in these accounts reveal the cultural hero-system of sport to be regressive. In particular, this paper argues that sport offers a world of social, moral, and emotional simplicity, a world focused on the themes of youth, and that as a cultural hero-system sport can, at worst, infantilize those who seek to derive sense and meaning from it.
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