The Aesthetics, Poetics, and Rhetoric of Soccer

ISBN-13: 9780367895693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 296 str.

Ridvan Askin; Catherine Diederich; Aline Bieri

Opis

Soccer has long been known as 'the beautiful game.' This multi-disciplinary volume explores the representation of soccer in art, film, and literature, using the critical tools of aesthetics, poetics, and rhetoric. It is a fascinating read for anybody with an interest in sport, culture, literature, philosophy, linguistics, and society.

Spis treści

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  1. Good Games as Athletic Beauty: Why Association Football is Rightly Called the Beautiful Game [Emily Ryall]  2. Appreciating the Not-Obviously-Beautiful Game [Adam Kadlac]  3. "England ‘Till I Die": Soccer, National Identity, and Contemporary Art [Daniel Haxall]  4. The Messianic Manager in Novels by David Peace [David Kilpatrick]  Half Time: Poetics  5. The Man in the Dugout: Fictional Football Managers and the Politics of Resistance [Cyprian Piskurek]  6. The Importance of Trivial Oppositions in Football Fandom: The Narcissism of Minor Differences in Derby Games [Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte]  7. Stupidity in Football [Philip Schauss]  Second Half: Rhetoric  8. "Caveman stuff": Ireland’s Soccer Struggle with Identity, Style, and Success [Michael O’Hara and Connell Vaughan]  9. The Beautiful and the Grim: British Cultural Discourses of the Eastern European Game [Blanka Blagojevic]  10. "Text Sex with Becks": Football Celebrities, Popular Press, and the Spectacle of Language [Jan Chovanec]  11. Multimodal Construction of Soccer-related Humor on Twitter and Instagram [Thomas Messerli and Di Yu]  12. Multilingualism in Football Teams [Eva Lavric and Jasmin Steiner]