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Description:Historians of popular culture have recently been grappling with the role of myth. 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 them or read about them; vessels into which we poured all manner of gender, class and patriotic expectations. The spectacles of the sports arenas are central to contemporary European culture. In a Europe where on Sundays few now pray to spiritual gods in Heaven, many worship temporal gods on earth as they perform in the new and numerous secular cathedrals. Here are found the rituals that now frequently bond banker and baker, if no longer the candlestick maker. Europeans, as we come together at various levels, need to know more about each other - and each other's heroes and heroines. This is the deceptively simple object of these essays. European sporting heroes are often archetypes representing a set of personal qualities and heroic characteristics not only supremely valued by society but seen by contemporaries and succeeding generations as having major instrumental power. Arguably, Europe now needs such unifying heroes and it is perhaps preferable that they come from future games-fields rather than past battlefields.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with European Heroes: Myth, Identity, Sport (Sport in the Global Society). To get started finding European Heroes: Myth, Identity, Sport (Sport in the Global Society), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Historians of popular culture have recently been grappling with the role of myth. 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 them or read about them; vessels into which we poured all manner of gender, class and patriotic expectations. The spectacles of the sports arenas are central to contemporary European culture. In a Europe where on Sundays few now pray to spiritual gods in Heaven, many worship temporal gods on earth as they perform in the new and numerous secular cathedrals. Here are found the rituals that now frequently bond banker and baker, if no longer the candlestick maker. Europeans, as we come together at various levels, need to know more about each other - and each other's heroes and heroines. This is the deceptively simple object of these essays. European sporting heroes are often archetypes representing a set of personal qualities and heroic characteristics not only supremely valued by society but seen by contemporaries and succeeding generations as having major instrumental power. Arguably, Europe now needs such unifying heroes and it is perhaps preferable that they come from future games-fields rather than past battlefields.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with European Heroes: Myth, Identity, Sport (Sport in the Global Society). To get started finding European Heroes: Myth, Identity, Sport (Sport in the Global Society), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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