Dreaming of Heroes
Author: Michael Oriard
Publisher: Chicago : Nelson-Hall
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 400
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Author: Michael Oriard
Publisher: Chicago : Nelson-Hall
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 400
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan Shreve
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: H. G. Bissinger
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0224076744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReturn once again to the enduring account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa -- the winningest high school football team in Texas history.
Author: Kevin Francis Sweeney
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 382
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Grady
Publisher: Bookbaby
Published: 2019-11-12
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781543987423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Cyril Letzelter's family moved to the small Ohio mill community of Martins Ferry, just across the Ohio River from Wheeling, West Virginia, they figured out quickly the city had a love for football bordering on obsessive. And it's not hard to understand why. Success in football and the path it offered out of the coal mines and steel mills to the promise of higher education and opportunity was the stuff of dreams.He emerged as one of the Ohio Valley's most prominent stars when the sport was exploding into the public consciousness like never before. The 1920s are rightly considered the golden age of college football, and his path out of the valley into the national elite offers a unique window into the evolution of the game and the changes in the nation that occurred between Reconstruction and post-WWI America. Long forgotten over the years, Cyril starred in some of the biggest games of the era. His talent was recruited by major teams from Stanford on the west coast to Army in the East. His playmaking ability was feared by giants of the game like Knute Rockne. And in the end, his sometimes rocky path out of the Ohio Valley mill towns to a better life involved taking risks to get ahead and sometimes being manipulated by stronger forces beyond his reach. This is a story of America and college football, as seen through the eyes of a forgotten star, Cyril Letzelter, who deserves to be remembered again.
Author: Adolfo Bioy Casares
Publisher: Dutton Books
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"At the end of carnival 1927, Emilio Gauna had an experience that he knew was the culmination of his life. The problem is that Gauna can only dimly remember what happened: he was out on the town with his raucous, reckless friends when a masked woman appeared. Several hours later, gasping and horrified, Gauna awoke at the edge of a lake. Three years later, he tries to solve the mystery the only way he knows: by re-creating the same situation and reliving it- despite the warnings of his secret protector, the Sorcerer. In The Dreams of Heroes, Adolfo Bioy Casares assembles magicians, prophetic and brave women, shamefully self-conscious men and Buenos Aires under the rubric of a sinister and mocking fate, and thrusts them forward into the dizzying realm of memory, doom and cyclical time. Written in 1954 and never before published in America, The Dream of Heroes stands as a predecessor of and model for a whole school of European and American novels that followed but never quite matched it"--
Author: Lynn Boulger
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 118
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pierre Lanfranchi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1135239053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorians of popular culture have recently been addressing the role of myth, and now it is time that social historians of sport also examined it. 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. The ambition is to understand what these icons stood for in the eyes of those who watched or read about these vessels into which poured all manner of gender, class and patriotic expectations.
Author: John Marsh
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2020-04-07
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1770487360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Puzzle of Poetry offers students a readable, reliable guide to understanding poetry. Instead of carving poems up into their elements, The Puzzle of Poetry describes how experienced readers of poems go about understanding them. Each line, sentence, or syntactical unit in a poem is a clue to the “puzzle.” As with crossword puzzles, figuring out the answer to one clue can help you figure out the answer to others. This book teaches the reader to check what they know in a poem against what else they know to find meaning, a systematic but creative approach that can help language to come alive. Each chapter contains a lively and personal discussion of one part of the art of reading poetry; a short guide to writing about poetry is also included. The book introduces students to a variety of poems, from Anglo-Saxon verse to Hamilton and Jay-Z.
Author: Wyn Wachhorst
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2016-01-06
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 150496313X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOld-time radio, the folk revival, the golden age of science fiction, steam railroads, baseball, the Western, and other genres color our images of the 1950s. But contrary to the countercultural myth that America during this period was a sterile, soulless society, culturally and intellectually empty, it was an introspective era of innovation and creativity, the seedtime of the sixties, the harbinger of which was the urban folk revival. The Best of Times presents a collection of essays, each followed by a related memoir, focusing on postwar popular culture, exploring topics that mark the era but are also nostalgic in themselves—the comforting continuity of long-running radio shows, train whistles that brought the sweet sorrow of distance to small-town nights, lazy summers of baseball, endless stretches of unknown lands to the West that once compelled the imagination, the heroes and vagabonds of folksong who roamed a simpler world, and dreams of alien civilizations on neighboring planets, deepened by the dawning reality of spaceflight. These pieces balance personal, cultural, and mythic nostalgia, recalling author Wyn Wachhorst’s youth, the postwar era, and its dreams of a fabled West or Norman Rockwell’s small-town America. Blending history, memoir, imagery, and analysis, this collection of essays offers poetic reflections on the nature of nostalgia and postwar America.