英语体育文学选读

Part One  Understanding Poetry & Sports
  40-Love
  My Knicks Are Going to Beat Your Spurs
  Schusssssssss
  Basketball at 65
  On the Death of the Evansville University Basketball Team in a Plane Crash, December 13, 1977
  Matina: Last Wimbledon
  The Runner
  Runner (An Excerpt)
  The Iliad (Excerpts)
  To an Athlete Dying Young
  Casey at the Bat
  Casey's Revenge
  Game Called( 1948 Version)
  The Standing Broad Jump
  Baseball and Writing
  The Opening Game
  Dedicated to F.W.
  The Fish
  To an Athlete Turned Poet
  Ex-Basketball Player
  The Sometime Sportsman Greets the Spring
  The Zen of Racquetball
  Pole Vaulter
  The Performance
  The Death of the Race Car Driver
  Defending Walt Whitman
  Narrative : Ali (An Excerpt)
  The Sprinters
  The Sidewalk Racer or on the Skateboard
  Eton Manor
  An Ode to Football
Part Two  Understanding Short Stories & Sports
  Winter Dreams (An Excerpt)
  Lynx-Hunting
  A Piece of Steak(Excerpts)
  The Battler
  The Eighty-Yard Run
  Death [of Paret]
  The Pro
  The National Pastime
  Champion (Excerpts)
  I Want to Know Why (Excerpts)
  The Ordeal by Golf (Excepts)
Part Three  Understanding Non-fiction & Sports
  The Moose( From The Wilderness Hunter)
  How the Great Football Game Was Played
  McGraw,Mack,McCarthy and Others (From The Tumult and the Shouting )
  Lou Gehrig--An American Hero
  Farewell to Baseball Address
  The Decline of Sport
  His Name Is Muhammad( From Cosell)
  The Smaller the Ball, the Better the Book: A Game Theory of Literature
  Paper Lion
  Winning and Losing
  Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu
  Fathers Playing Catch with Sons
  What Shakespeare Knew about Baseball
  Instant Replay ( An Excerpt)
  Days of Grace (An Excerpt)
  Into Thin Air (An Excerpt)
  What I Talk about When I Talk about Running (An Excerpt)
  Why I Run (An Excerpt)
  Fever Pitch ( An Excerpt)
  The Rapture of the Athletes Assumed into Heaven
  Game 6 ( An Excerpt)
  Born to Run (An Excerpt)
  The Fight (An Excerpt)
  Soccer in Sun and Shadow (Excerpts)
  The Game (An Excerpt)
Part Four  Understanding Novels & Sports
  The Champion ( From Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ)
  A Busher's Letter Home (From You Know Me, A1)
  The Great Gatsby (Excerpts)
  The Sun Also Rises (Excerpts)
  The Old Man and the Sea (Excerpts)
  The Catcher in the Rye (Excerpts)
  Rabbit, Run (An Excerpt)
  The Front Runner (An Excerpt)
  Friday Night Lights (An Excerpt)
  The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (An Excerpt)
  Goodbye, Columbus (Excerpts)
  The Great American Novel (An Excerpt)
  American Pastoral (An Excerpt)
  The Blind Side (Excerpts)
  Once a Runner (An Excerpt)
  The Sportswriter (Excerpts)
  Underworld (Excerpts)
  Shoeless Joe ( An Excerpt)
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