[PDF] The Death Of Hockey Or How A Bunch Of Guys With Too Much Money And Too Little Sense Are Killing The Greatest Game On Earth eBook

Author : Jason Blake
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 2010-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442698500

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Hockey occupies a prominent place in the Canadian cultural lexicon, as evidenced by the wealth of hockey-centred stories and novels published within Canada. In this exciting new work, Jason Blake takes readers on a thematic journey through Canadian hockey literature, examining five common themes - nationhood, the hockey dream, violence, national identity, and family - as they appear in hockey fiction. Blake examines the work of such authors as Mordecai Richler, David Adams Richards, Paul Quarrington, and Richard B. Wright, arguing that a study of contemporary hockey fiction exposes a troubled relationship with the national sport. Rather than the storybook happy ending common in sports literature of previous generations, Blake finds that today's fiction portrays hockey as an often-glorified sport that in fact leads to broken lives and ironic outlooks. The first book to focus exclusively on hockey in print, Canadian Hockey Literature is an accessible work that challenges popular perceptions of a much-beloved national pastime.

Author : Stephen Smith
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1771640480

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Like many a Canadian kid, Stephen Smith was up on skates first thing as a boy, out in the weather chasing a puck and the promise of an NHL career. Back indoors after that didn't quite work out, he turned to the bookshelf. That's where, without entirely meaning to, he ended up reading all the hockey books. There was Crunch and Boom Boom, Slashing! and High Stick; there was Max Bentley: Hockey's Dipsy-Doodle Dandy, Blue Line Murder, and Nagano, a Czech hockey opera. There was Blood on the Ice, Cracked Ice, Fire On Ice, Power On Ice, Cowboy On Ice, and Steel On Ice. In Puckstruck, Smith chronicles his wide-eyed and sometimes wincing wander through hockey's literature, language, and culture, weighing its excitement and unbridled joy against its costs and vexing brutality. In exploring his own lifelong love of the game, hoping to surprise some sense out of it, he sifts hockey's narratives in search of hockey's heart, what it means and why it should distress us even as we celebrate its glories. On a journey to discover what the game might have to say about who we are as Canadians, he seeks to answer some of its essential riddles.

Author : Michael Buma
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0773539875

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What "national pastime" novels tell us about our country.

Author : Stephen G. Wieting
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 113528413X

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Cultures and nations remember themselves with select bodily images, evocative rituals and texts. This volume illustrates how sport is used in the creation, maintenance and now global dissemination of a nation's cherished values. Carefully drawn cases of sport in North America - American baseball and football, figure skating and gymnastics, Canadian hockey and track and field, for example - show the potency of sport's "cultural work". The book captures uplifting images which are stressed in the public performance and national and international broadcasting of sport, but also notes the omissions and distortions of social reality that persist in sport performance and mass marketing in North America.

Author : Bernhard Wälchli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2009-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199563322

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This typological survey and analysis of co-compounds considers topics such as the notion of word, markedness, the syntax and semantics of coordination, grammaticalization, and lexical semantics, and draws on the author's original research on a wide range of languages.