Home Games

Author: John A. Lauricella
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Binding: Library Binding
ISBN: 0786406259

Home Games: Essays on Baseball Fiction

These essays explore the use and significance of baseball in American prose fiction, primarily the American novel. Get Home Games literature books for free.
The author understands that the classical narrative structure of exile and homecoming is reenacted in the movement of the game itself. He recalls certain episodes of baseball history as a way of recreating the contexts of baseball fictions. Two commentaries of baseball-one literary and the other "real"-are interwoven in each chapter. Part One addresses allusions to baseball in canonical works of American fiction, including The Great Gatsby, The Sound and the Fury and The Old Man and the Sea, and illustrates how baseball engages signature themes of American literature: versions of the American Dream, ethnic prejudice, Check Home Games our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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Part One addresses allusions to baseball in canonical works of American fiction, including The Great Gatsby, The Sound and the Fury and The Old Man and the Sea, and illustrates how baseball engages signature themes of American literature: versions of the American Dream, ethnic prejudice,

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