The aesthetics, poetics, and rhetoric of soccer / edited by Ridvan Askin, Catherine Diederich, and Aline Bieri.
Material type: TextSeries: Routledge research in sport, culture and societyPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781351180382
- 135118038X
- 796.334 23
- GV943.9.S64
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.
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