The Death Of Hockey Or How A Bunch Of Guys With Too Much Money And Too Little Sense Are Killing The Greatest Game On Earth

Author : Jason Blake
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442698505

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Canadian Hockey Literature by Jason Blake Pdf

Hockey occupies a prominent place in the Canadian cultural lexicon, as evidenced by the wealth of hockey-centred stories and novels published within Canada. In this exciting new work, Jason Blake takes readers on a thematic journey through Canadian hockey literature, examining five common themes - nationhood, the hockey dream, violence, national identity, and family - as they appear in hockey fiction. Blake examines the work of such authors as Mordecai Richler, David Adams Richards, Paul Quarrington, and Richard B. Wright, arguing that a study of contemporary hockey fiction exposes a troubled relationship with the national sport. Rather than the storybook happy ending common in sports literature of previous generations, Blake finds that today's fiction portrays hockey as an often-glorified sport that in fact leads to broken lives and ironic outlooks. The first book to focus exclusively on hockey in print, Canadian Hockey Literature is an accessible work that challenges popular perceptions of a much-beloved national pastime.

Author : Howard Shubert
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780773548138

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Architecture on Ice by Howard Shubert Pdf

An architectural and cultural history of skating rinks and hockey arenas in North America.

Author : Michael Buma
Publisher : McGill-Queen's University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773586987

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Refereeing Identity by Michael Buma Pdf

Hockey novels in Canada have emerged and thrived as a popular fiction genre, building on the mythology of Canadian hockey as a rough, testosterone-fuelled bastion of masculinity. However, recent decades have also been a period of uncertainty and change for the game, where players and teams have been exported to the US and traditional gender assumptions in hockey have increasingly been questioned. In Refereeing Identity, Michael Buma examines the ways in which the hockey novel genre attempts to reassure readers that "threatened" traditional Canadian and masculine identities still thrive on the ice. In a period of perceived crisis and flux, hockey novels offer readers the comforting familiarity of earlier times when the game was synonymous with Canada and men were defined by their physical strength. This comprehensive study of Canadian hockey novels draws on history, sport sociology, and literary criticism to challenge assumptions and stereotypes about identity. With the return of the Winnipeg Jets refuelling hockey nationalism and the public debate over hockey violence intensifying, Refereeing Identity is a timely and incisive account of how the game is represented - and misrepresented - in Canadian society.

Author : Bernhard Wälchli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199563326

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Co-Compounds and Natural Coordination by Bernhard Wälchli Pdf

This typological survey and analysis of co-compounds considers topics such as the notion of word, markedness, the syntax and semantics of coordination, grammaticalization, and lexical semantics, and draws on the author's original research on a wide range of languages.

Author : Stephen G. Wieting
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781135284138

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Sport and Memory in North America by Stephen G. Wieting Pdf

Cultures and nations remember themselves with select bodily images, evocative rituals and texts. This volume illustrates how sport is used in the creation, maintenance and now global dissemination of a nation's cherished values. Carefully drawn cases of sport in North America - American baseball and football, figure skating and gymnastics, Canadian hockey and track and field, for example - show the potency of sport's "cultural work". The book captures uplifting images which are stressed in the public performance and national and international broadcasting of sport, but also notes the omissions and distortions of social reality that persist in sport performance and mass marketing in North America.

Author : Jeff Z. Klein,Karl-Eric Reif
Publisher : MacMillan of Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : PSU:000033792286

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The Death of Hockey, Or, How a Bunch of Guys with Too Much Money and Too Little Sense are Killing the Greatest Game on Earth by Jeff Z. Klein,Karl-Eric Reif Pdf

Author : Stephen Smith
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781771640480

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Puckstruck by Stephen Smith Pdf

Like many a Canadian kid, Stephen Smith was up on skates first thing as a boy, out in the weather chasing a puck and the promise of an NHL career. Back indoors after that didn't quite work out, he turned to the bookshelf. That's where, without entirely meaning to, he ended up reading all the hockey books. There was Crunch and Boom Boom, Slashing! and High Stick; there was Max Bentley: Hockey's Dipsy-Doodle Dandy, Blue Line Murder, and Nagano, a Czech hockey opera. There was Blood on the Ice, Cracked Ice, Fire On Ice, Power On Ice, Cowboy On Ice, and Steel On Ice. In Puckstruck, Smith chronicles his wide-eyed and sometimes wincing wander through hockey's literature, language, and culture, weighing its excitement and unbridled joy against its costs and vexing brutality. In exploring his own lifelong love of the game, hoping to surprise some sense out of it, he sifts hockey's narratives in search of hockey's heart, what it means and why it should distress us even as we celebrate its glories. On a journey to discover what the game might have to say about who we are as Canadians, he seeks to answer some of its essential riddles.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : NWU:35556028976801

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Quill & Quire by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015046794445

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Canadian Books in Print by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124517736

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Cumulated Index to the Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1740 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Canadian periodicals
ISBN : UOM:39015066399034

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Canadian Periodical Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marian Butler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1502 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015046815406

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Canadian Books in Print by Marian Butler Pdf

Author : Stephen Mertz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Pittsburgh (Pa.)
ISBN : OCLC:1040017667

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Sudden Death by Stephen Mertz Pdf

Author : Fredrik Backman
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982115548

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Us Against You by Fredrik Backman Pdf

From Fredrik Backman, New York Times bestselling author of Beartown, comes a heart-wrenching story of the ways loyalty, friendship, and love carry a small community through its darkest days. After everything that the citizens of Beartown have gone through, they are struck yet another blow when they hear that their beloved local junior hockey team will soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former Beartown players, who now play for a rival team in Hed, take in that fact. As the tension between the two towns simmers, a surprising newcomer is handpicked to try to save the Beartown club. Soon a new team starts to take shape around Amat, the fastest player you’ll ever see; Benji, the intense lone wolf; and Vidar, a born-to-be-bad troublemaker. But bringing this team together proves to be a challenge as old bonds are broken, new ones are formed, and the enmity with Hed grows more and more heated. As the big game between Beartown and Hed approaches, the not-so-innocent pranks and incidents between the communities pile up. By the time the last game is finally played, a resident of Beartown will be dead, and the people of both towns will be forced to wonder if, after all they’ve been through, the game they love can ever return to something simple and innocent. Us Against You is a declaration of love for all the big and small, bright and dark stories that form and colour our communities. Compelling and heartbreaking, it’s a roller-coaster ride of emotions and a showcase for “Fredrik Backman’s pitch-perfect dialogue and unparalleled understanding of human nature” (Shelf Awareness).

Author : Richard Wagamese
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781553659709

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Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese Pdf

"An unforgettable work of art."—The National Post Saul Indian Horse is dying. Tucked away in a hospice high above the clash and clang of a big city, he embarks on a marvellous journey of imagination back through the life he led as a northern Ojibway, with all its sorrows and joys. With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. For Saul, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he's sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement. Indian Horse unfolds against the bleak loveliness of northern Ontario, all rock, marsh, bog and cedar. Wagamese writes with a spare beauty, penetrating the heart of a remarkable Ojibway man. Drawing on his great-grandfather's mystical gift of vision, Saul Indian Horse comes to recognize the influence of everyday magic on his own life. In this wise and moving novel, Richard Wagamese shares that gift of magic with readers as well.