Askin / Diederich / Bieri The Aesthetics, Poetics and Rhetoric of Soccer

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-18039-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

Soccer has long been known as ‘the beautiful game’. This multi-disciplinary volume explores representations of soccer in art, film and literature, using the philosophical and linguistic concepts of aesthetics, poetics and rhetoric as critical tools. It is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport, culture and society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Askin, Ridvan

Diederich, Catherine

Bieri, Aline

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Ballsportarten American Football Fußball
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Pep Talk 1. Klopp’s Heideggerianism Taking the Field2. Introduction: Aesthetics, Poetics, Rhetoric, Soccer First Half: Aesthetics 3. Games as Athletic Beauty: Why Soccer is Rightly Called ‘The Beautiful Game’ 4. Appreciating the Not-Obviously-Beautiful Game 5. ‘England ‘Till I Die’: Soccer, National Identity, and Contemporary Art 6. The Messianic Manager in Novels by David Peace Half-Time: Poetics 7. The Man in the Dugout: Fictional Football Managers and the Politics of Resistance 8. The Importance of Trivial Oppositions in Football Fandom: The Narcissism of Minor Differences in Derby Games 9. Stupidity in Football Second Half: Rhetoric 10. ‘Caveman stuff’: Ireland’s Soccer Struggle with Identity, Style, and Success 11. The Beautiful and the Grim: British Cultural Discourses of the Eastern European Game 12. ‘Text sex with Beck’s: Football Celebrities, Tabloid News, and the Spectacle of Language 13. Multimodal Construction of Soccer-related Humor on Twitter and Instagram 14. Multilingualism in Football Teams Stoppage Time 15. Fandom, Beauty, Politics

Über Autor(innen)

Ridvan Askin is Research and Teaching Fellow for American and General Literatures at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He is the author of Narrative and Becoming (2016) and co-editor of Aesthetics in the 21st Century, a special issue of the journal Speculations (2014), and Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives (2015). He is currently working on his second book entitled "Transcendental Poetics and the Futures of American Romanticism." He is Treasurer and SAGW Delegate of the Swiss Association for North American Studies.

Catherine Diederich is a Research and Teaching Fellow in English Linguistics at the University of Teacher Education St. Gallen, Switzerland. Her research interests are in the areas of Cognitive Linguistics, Sensory Language, and Pragmatic Competence. Her book Sensory Adjectives in the Discourse of Food (2015) presents a frame-semantic approach to sensory terminology. Her current research project investigates the use of discourse markers by native and non-native speakers of English. She is involved in the project Profession-Specific Language Competences for Foreign Language Teachers supported by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture.

Aline Bieri is a teaching and research assistant in English Linguistics at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She holds an M.A. in English and Biology from the University of Basel and is now currently working on her PhD project entitled "Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in the Swiss Context: The linguistic challenges and implications of teaching a subject such as biology in English." She is a member of the international doctoral programme Hermann Paul School for Linguistics (HPSL).