- Title: Subtitle
- Pour le sport: physical culture in French and Francophone literature
- Creators
- Roxanna Nydia Curto (Editor)Rebecca Wines (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Edited book
- Table of contents
- Avatars of sport in Medieval and Early Modern French literature / John McClelland -- Are mountaineers Romantics? the art of viewing and climbing in nineteenth-century France / Pierre-Olaf Schut -- "Tennis killed me": sport as failed ritual in the works of Prosper Mérimée / Corry Cropper -- Henri Desgrange, cycling, and modern masculinities / Rebecca Wines -- Barthes, Blondin, and the Tour de France of the Trente Glorieuses / Ruadhán Cooke -- Dominique Braga's literary stride / Thomas Bauer -- Communism, bio-fiction, and the Olympics in Jean Echenoz's Courir / Roxanna Curto -- "She has a great shot!": representations of sport and gender in the French book series Le Petit Nicolas / Cynthia Laborde -- Kourat el Kadem: soccer culture in postcolonial francophone Algerian texts / Christa Jones -- "The gaze always finds Zidane": aesthetics and overdetermination in Toussaint, Delbée, and Gordon and Parreno / Luke Healey -- Reassessing Voivenel's Mon beau rugby / Keith Rathbone -- Corporeal conceptions: body politics, French Republicanism, and sport in banlieue literature / Marshall L. Smith -- Fighting as a trope for flight from conflict: combat sports in Le Débrouillard (N.G.M. Faye) and L'Appel des arénes (Aminata Sow Fall) / Christopher Hogarth.
- ISBN
- 180085689X; 9781800856899
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press; Liverpool
- Format
- viii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Number of pages
- viii, 332 pages
- Language
- English
- Date copyrighted
- 2021
- Date published
- 2021
- Academic Unit
- French and Italian; Spanish and Portuguese; University College Courses
- Record Identifier
- 9984700252802771
Edited book
Pour le sport: physical culture in French and Francophone literature
Liverpool University Press
2021
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