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MICHAEL COCCHIARALE is Assistant Professor of English at Widener University, where he teaches American Literature, creative writing, and composition courses.

The essays are challenging, cogent, and informed. Sports literature is alive and well and so are its younger critics. Perhaps the widest-ranging collection of essays ever amassed on the subject. MICHAEL COCCHIARALE is Assistant Professor of English at Widener University, where he teaches American Literature, creative writing, and composition courses. SCOTT D. EMMERT is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin―Fox Valley. He has published numerous articles in various scholarly journals.

By Michael Cocchiarale, Scott D. Emmert. By Michael Cocchiarale, Scott D. Like fast-food franchises and name-brand coffee houses, sports are virtually everywhere in America.

Michael Cocchiarale, Scott Emmert. The first section features essays that explain how sports are used by writers to explore or critique American values.

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F(rancis) Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. He was educated at Princeton University and served in the . Army from 1917 to 1919, attaining the rank of second lieutenant. In 1920 Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre, a young woman of the upper class, and they had a daughter, Frances.

5 Michael Oriards Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American . Michael Cocchiarale and Scott D. Westport: GreenwoodPraeger, 2004.

Michael Oriards Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Culture makes reference to Roth only once (Portnoys Complaint), but states that when Portnoy recalls the centerfield of his boyhood as an island of peace, he enjoys (in Oriards words) the most beatific vision associated with sports in almost any novel (454).

American literature is literature written or produced in the United States of America and its preceding colonies (for specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States)

American literature is literature written or produced in the United States of America and its preceding colonies (for specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States). Before the founding of the United States, the British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States were heavily influenced by English literature. The American literary tradition thus began as part of the broader tradition of English literature.

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