Sport und literarischer Expressionismus
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 2732
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- V&R unipress GmbH
- ISBN
- 9783847109396
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book was researched and written between 2015 and 2018. It is the first scholarly publication to analyse representations of sport in Expressionist literature. The size and scope of research, in terms of the material covered and its exposition, is substantial. Covering both canonical and non-canonical authors, the book uses a complex combination of textual, aesthetic, historical and theoretical approaches to analyse representations of four main sports (boxing; tennis; cycling; football) across a range of genres and authors. The book assesses the distinctive contribution made by sports literature to both the period and Expressionism studies.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This is the first monograph to examine the role of modern sports in Expressionist literature. Adopting a cultural-historical approach, the study analyses sport themes in Expressionism alongside socio-cultural contexts and meanings. Expressionist texts on sport thus become integral elements of the corporal and the symbolic cultures of modernity that frequently tease out tensions between individual, vitalising liberation and collective, devitalising disciplining of the sporting body. In using boxing, tennis, cycling and football, the study takes as its main examples four sports that arrived in Germany from the late 19th century to quickly become popular mass sports and commercial spectator sports.