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Bezig met laden... What Is Sport?door Roland Barthes
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Narration for a film by Hubert Aquin, but it is too short to give Barthes the room he needs: the text would fit on perhaps ten ordinary pages (here it is padded out with stock photography and white space), and covers bull fighting, motor racing, cycling and ice hockey, which is too much, so the writing rarely gets much beyond the sort of poetical bullshit the BBC gives you before the Rugby World Cup begins. There are occasional suggestive moments ("sport is the entire trajectory separating a combat from a riot"), but it's pretty thin stuff at the side of "The Tour de France as Epic" (in The Eiffel Tower and other Mythologies). ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
A poetic meditation on professional sport by one of the major figures of twentieth-century French Literature and thought, published in an elegant paperback gift edition A little-known gem, the text of Barthes's What Is Sport? was never reprinted in the Seuil editions of his Complete Works--neither the three-volume version nor the later five-volume edition. It is published here in a graceful and faithful English translation by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard. Originally commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as the text for a documentary film directed by Hubert Aquin, What Is Sport? was written three years after the publication of Barthes's Mythologies (1957) and bears considerable resemblance to that work. Some of Barthes's best writing seems to have been inspired by popular culture. Once again blurring the distinction between high and low, the great French literary theorist muses philosophically on the question: What is sport? In investigating the phenomenon of sport, Barthes considers five national sports: bullfighting (Spain), car racing (America), cycling (France), hockey (Canada), and soccer (England). For Barthes, sport is spectacle and serves the primary social function that theater once did in antiquity, collecting a city or nation within a shared experience. The real pleasure of this book, however, lies less in its generalities than in its fleeting, strangely haunting moments of insight. It makes an appropriate gift for any sport enthusiast as well as those interested in the writing of Roland Barthes. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)796.01The arts Recreational and performing arts Athletic and outdoor sports and games General Athletics And Sports Philosophy And PsychologyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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