| Description |
1 online resource |
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Routledge research in sport, culture and society |
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Routledge research in sport, culture and society.
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| Contents |
Pep talk -- Klopp's heideggerianism -- [simon critchley] -- Taking the field -- Introduction: aesthetics, poetics, rhetoric, soccer -- [ridvan askin, catherine diederich, and aline bieri] -- First half: aesthetics -- Good games as athletic beauty: why association football is rightly called the beautiful game -- [emily ryall] -- Appreciating the not-obviously-beautiful game -- [adam kadlac] -- england till i die: soccer, national identity, and contemporary art -- [daniel haxall] -- The messianic manager in novels by david peace -- [david kilpatrick] -- Half time: poetics -- The man in the dugout: fictional football managers and the politics of resistance -- [cyprian piskurek] -- The importance of trivial oppositions in football fandom: the narcissism of minor differences in derby games -- [kristof k.p. vanhoutte] -- Stupidity in football -- [philip schauss] -- Second half: rhetoric -- caveman stuff: ireland's soccer struggle with identity, style, and success -- [michael o'hara and connell vaughan] -- The beautiful and the grim: british cultural discourses of the eastern european game [blanka blagojevic] -- text sex with becks: football celebrities, popular press, and the spectacle of language [jan chovanec] -- Multimodal construction of soccer-related humor on twitter and instagram -- [thomas messerli and di yu] -- Multilingualism in football teams -- [eva lavric and jasmin steiner] -- List of contributors |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 16, 2018) |
| Subject |
Soccer -- Social aspects.
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GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
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Soccer -- Social aspects.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Askin, Ridvan, editor.
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Diederich, Catherine, editor.
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Bieri, Aline, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781351180382 |
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9781351180405 |
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135118038X |
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9781351180399 |
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1351180398 |
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9781351180375 |
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1351180401 |
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1351180371 |
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