TY - BOOK AU - Askin,Ridvan AU - Diederich,Catherine AU - Bieri,Aline TI - The aesthetics, poetics, and rhetoric of soccer T2 - Routledge research in sport, culture and society SN - 9781351180382 AV - GV943.9.S64 U1 - 796.334 23 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Soccer KW - Social aspects KW - fast KW - GAMES / Gambling / Sports KW - bisacsh KW - SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects KW - SPORTS & RECREATION / Essays KW - SPORTS & RECREATION / History KW - SPORTS & RECREATION / Reference KW - TRAVEL / Special Interest / Sports KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1753441 ER -