The Aesthetics, Poetics, and Rhetoric of Soccer

Ridvan Askin, Catherine Diederich, Aline Bieri, Ridvan Askin, Catherine Diederich, Aline Bieri

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9780815385738
• eBook ISBN: 9781351180382
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory
• Index: Literature

Soccer has long been known as 'the beautiful game'. This multi-disciplinary volume explores soccer, soccer culture, and the representation of soccer in art, film, and literature, using the critical tools of aesthetics, poetics, and rhetoric.

Including international contributions from scholars of philosophy, literary and cultural studies, linguistics, art history, and the creative arts, this book begins by investigating the relationship between beauty and soccer and asks what criteria should be used to judge the sport's aesthetic value. Covering topics as diverse as humor, national identity, style, celebrity, and social media, its chapters examine the nature of fandom, the role of language, and the significance of soccer in contemporary popular culture. It also discusses what one might call the 'stylistics' of soccer, analyzing how players, fans, and commentators communicate on and off the pitch, in the press, on social media, and in wider public discourse.

The Aesthetics, Poetics, and Rhetoric of Soccer makes for fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport, culture, literature, philosophy, linguistics, and society.

Index

Page numbers in italics denote figures.

A Collection of Heroes (Schrank) 71, 72

A Shot at Glory (Corrente) 17, 115–116, 118, 121

abbreviation 209–211

actions 29–30, 33, 34, 37, 39, 50, 52, 53, 55, 56, 58, 90, 156n1, 172, 234; human action 36 (see also dramatic spectacle); intelligible action 45–49, 57

Adidas 83, 84

aesthetic experience 38, 50–51, 52–55, 57, 58

aesthetic judgment 16, 29, 44, 45, 50, 52, 54, 57, 60n5; see also judgment

Aesthetica (Baumgarten) 14, 21n7

aesthetics 13–16, 21n4, 29, 57, 91, 123, 150, 176; aesthetic judgment see aesthetic judgment; beauty see beauty; concept of the aesthetic 13, 14–15; definition of 14; everyday aesthetics 15; genius see genius; and perception 14, 16, 54 (see also aísthēsis); and representation 13, 14, 62, 63, 81, 93, 109, 114, 115, 118, 183, 194, 201, 202, 222n1, 231, 239; of soccer 13, 14, 16, 20, 21n4, 47; of sport 13, 21n4, 27–28, 31, 33, 36, 37, 42; as theory of art 13,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Table of Contents
• Lists of figures
• Acknowledgments
• Pep talk
• Taking the field
• First half: aesthetics
• Half time: poetics
• Second half: rhetoric
• Notes on contributors
• Index