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Hero And Anti-Hero In The American Football Novel: Changing Conceptions Of Masculinity From The 19th Century To The 21st Century, Donald L. Deardorff

Faculty Books

This book examines the rise and evolution of the football narrative, from 1870 to the present, in order to analyze and define the process by which American men have sought to fashion masculine identity over the last century. The author uses the athletic hero as a representative of a larger number of templates or centers (the religious man, the business tycoon, the family man, the rebel, etc.), many of which have been used by various men to make meaning of their lives.