ISBN:
9780714645780
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (191 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Sport in the Global Society
Parallel Title:
Print version European Heroes : Myth, Identity, Sport
DDC:
306.4/83/0922
Keywords:
Sports Social aspects
;
History
;
Heroes History
;
Group identity History
;
Athletes Biography
;
Athletes Social conditions
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The contributors to this collection of essays explore the symbolic meanings that have been attached to sport in Europe by considering some of the mythic heroes who have dominated the sporting landscapes of their own countries
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue: Heroes of a European Past; Charismatic National Leader: Turnvater Jahn; 'Muscular, Militaristic and Manly': The British Middle-Class Hero as Moral Messenger; Cricket and Englishness: The Batsman as Hero; 'Our Stephen and Our Harold': Edwardian Footballers as Local Heroes; National Identity and the Sporting Champion: Jean Borotra and French History; Symbol of National Resurrection: Max Schmeling, German Sports Idol; The Immigrant as Hero: Kopa, Mekloufi and French Football
Description / Table of Contents:
Italian Cycling and the Creation of a Catholic Hero: The BartaliMythA Culture of Urban Cosmopolitanism: Uridil and Sindelar as Viennese Coffee-House Heroes; Courage against Cupidity: Carpentier and Dempsey - Symbols of Cultural Confrontation; Epilogue: Heroes for a European Future; Notes on Contributors; Index
Note:
Firstitle pageblished in 1996 by Frank Cass Publishers
,
Includes bibliographical references
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