This Sporting Life

This Sporting Life
Title This Sporting Life PDF eBook
Author David Storey
Publisher Open Road Media
Pages 286
Release 2015-08-11
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1504015061

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A rugby player finds fame and fortune in a bleak mining town, but he cannot outrun the emptiness he feels inside in Man Booker Prize–winning author David Storey’s seminal first novel On Christmas Eve, Arthur breaks his two front teeth. A teammate on the rugby pitch is too slow with a handoff, and instead of catching the ball, Art catches an opponent’s foot right in the mouth. When he regains consciousness, the match is almost over, but he keeps playing regardless. Where else would he go? His entire life, Art has only cared about sports and nothing grabs his attention quite like the lightning-fast violence of Rugby League. He knows it could kill him, but it also makes him feel alive. In this hard-bitten Yorkshire mining town, the warriors of the rugby pitch are treated like gods. Through the aggressive sport, Art finds money, friends, and countless women. But when his lust for violence begins to fade, will he have the courage to leave the game behind?

This Sporting Life

This Sporting Life
Title This Sporting Life PDF eBook
Author Robert Colls
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 408
Release 2020
Genre History
ISBN 0198208332

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This Sporting Life offers an important view of England's cultural history through its sporting pursuits, carrying the reader to a match or a hunt or a fight, viscerally drawing a portrait of the sounds and smells, and showing that sport has been as important in defining British culture as gender, politics, education, class, and religion.

The Good Sporting Life

The Good Sporting Life
Title The Good Sporting Life PDF eBook
Author Stephen Liggins
Publisher
Pages
Release 2020-04
Genre
ISBN 9781925424645

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An introduction to the Bible's teaching on sport and a compendium of practical advice for maximising the blessings of sport while avoiding its potential dangers.

This Sporting Life

This Sporting Life
Title This Sporting Life PDF eBook
Author William Wright Kelly
Publisher
Pages 296
Release 2007
Genre Body, Human
ISBN

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The Sporting Life

The Sporting Life
Title The Sporting Life PDF eBook
Author Nancy Fix Anderson
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 244
Release 2010-02-26
Genre History
ISBN 0313071489

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This lively and intriguing study looks at the way sports both reflected and shaped Victorian society. Just as our own games have a lot to say about modern American culture, so sports are a prism through which we can gain valuable insights into Victorian society. The Sporting Life: Victorian Sports and Games is an engaging and perceptive account of how sport developed during Britain's heyday, who played (and who wasn't allowed to play), and what it all conveys about gender, race, imperialism, and national pride. Drawing extensively on 19th-century writings, The Sporting Life begins with a survey of sports in pre-Victorian England and the impact of industrialism in the early 19th century. We read of the effects of evangelicalism and utilitarianism, both of which first opposed sport, then used it for their own purposes. We learn of the association of sports with masculinity, an identification women challenged late in the century. Finally we learn how English sports became part of the imperial game, used to promote—and resist—the spread of Victoria's vast empire.

The British New Wave

The British New Wave
Title The British New Wave PDF eBook
Author B. F. Taylor
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 214
Release 2012-10
Genre Art
ISBN 9781847791931

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This book offers an opportunity to reconsider the films of the British New Wave in the light of forty years of heated debate. By eschewing the usual tendency to view films like A Kind of Loving and The Entertainer collectively and include them in broader debates about class, gender, and ideology, this book presents a new and innovative look at this famous cycle of British films. For each film, a re-distribution of existing critical emphasis also allows the problematic relationship between these films and the question of realism to be reconsidered. Drawing upon existing sources and returning to long-standing and unchallenged assumptions about these films, this book offers the opportunity for the reader to return to the British New Wave and decide for themselves where they stand in relation to the films.

The Culture and Ethnicity of Nineteenth Century Baseball

The Culture and Ethnicity of Nineteenth Century Baseball
Title The Culture and Ethnicity of Nineteenth Century Baseball PDF eBook
Author Jerrold I. Casway
Publisher McFarland
Pages 216
Release 2017-05-29
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 0786498900

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Evolving in an urban landscape, professional baseball attracted a dedicated fan base among the inhabitants of major cities, including ethnic and racial minorities, for whom the game was a vehicle for assimilation. But to what extent were these groups welcomed within the world of baseball, and what effect did their integration--or, as in the case of African Americans, their ultimate inability to integrate--have on the culture of a pastime that had recently become a national obsession? How did their mutual striving for acceptance affect relations between these minorities? (In deep and long-lasting ways, as it turns out.) This book provides a carefully considered portrait of baseball as both a sporting profession--one with quick-changing rules and roles--and as an institution that reinforced popular ideas about cultural identity, masculinity and American exceptionalism.