Hockey on the Moon
eBook - ePub

Hockey on the Moon

Imagination and Canada's Game

  1. 330 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Hockey on the Moon

Imagination and Canada's Game

About this book

Fantasy and reality come together in sports and Jamie Dopp argues that nowhere is this blurring of the borders of reality more evident than in Canadian hockey. Using imagination as a unifying theme, Dopp offers in-depth analyses of key texts of hockey literature, with a focus on how these texts reveal the imaginative possibilities of the game. Popular texts like Stompin' Tom Connors' "The Hockey Song, " Scott Young's Scrubs on Skates trilogy, and Roch Carrier's The Hockey Sweater, as well as important literary texts like Bill Gaston's The Good Body, Cara Hedley's Twenty Miles, and Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse are examined. Dopp's analysis draws on literary history and methods and explores broader topics such as the role of imagination in human culture, the significance of play, the evolution of sport in Canada and elsewhere, the history of Canada, and the history and social significance of hockey.

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Information

Publisher
Athabasca University Press
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781771994156
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Stompin’ Tom Versus Big Al: Two Imaginative Versions of the Game
  8. 2. The Fighting Soul of Hockey in Ralph Connor’s Glengarry School Days
  9. 3. Hugh MacLennan and the Two Solitudes of Hockey
  10. 4. Boys on the Defensive: The Hockey Myth in Scott Young
  11. 5. Belief and Doubt in Roch Carrier’s “The Hockey Sweater”
  12. 6. Haunted by Bill Spunska: Roy MacGregor’s The Last Season
  13. 7. Blarney’s Version: The Comic Spirit of Hockey in Paul Quarrington’s King Leary
  14. 8. Hockey as a Gateway to the Underworld in Wayne Johnston’s The Divine Ryans
  15. 9. Playing with the Hero in Richard Harrison’s Hero of the Play
  16. 10. Hockey, Zen, and the Art of Bill Gaston’s The Good Body
  17. 11. Cara Hedley’s Twenty Miles and the Challenge of the Hockey Barbie
  18. 12. The Faustian Bargain of the Athlete-Hero in Randall Maggs’s Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems
  19. 13. Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse: Reimagining the Home Game
  20. Conclusion: Return to the Moon
  21. Publication Credits
  22. Index