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Football de Professor Mark Yakich

Football: Object Lessons

Autor Professor Mark Yakich
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 feb 2022
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.When is the "beautiful game" at its most beautiful? How does football function as a lens through which so many view their daily lives? What's right in front of fans that they never see? Football celebrates and scrutinizes the world's most popular sport-from top-tier professionals to children just learning the game. As an American who began playing football in the 1970s as it gained a foothold in the States, Mark Yakich reflects on his own experiences alongside the sport's social and political implications, its narrative and documentary depictions, and its linguistic idiosyncrasies. Illustrating how football can be at once absolutely vital and "only a game," this book will be surprising and insightful for the casual and diehard fan alike.Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501367069
ISBN-10: 1501367064
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 6 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 121 x 165 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Object Lessons

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

The Object Lessons series, published in association with The Atlantic, explores the hidden lives of ordinary things and uncovers the lessons they hold about ourselves and the modern world

Notă biografică

Mark Yakich is the Gregory F. Curtin, S.J. Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, USA, where he has been editor of New Orleans Review since 2012. He is the author of the poetry collections Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (2004), The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (2008), and Spiritual Exercises (2019); a novel, A Meaning for Wife (2011); and a guide to reading and writing poems Poetry: A Survivor's Guide (Bloomsbury, 2016).

Cuprins

1. Introduction to a Slightly New Game2. A Concession3. The Name of the Game4. Popularity, Contests5. Standstill6. How to Make a Football7. Two Games8. 90-Minute Meds9. Geisterspiel10. Pickup11. The Life-Changing Magic of Three-Touch12. Of Nutmegs and Fish up a Tree 13. For the Love of a Pretty Move14. Zone15. A 21st Century Portrait16. Zone Painting 17. Future Stronger in Color18. Reset19. The Best Seats20. Hacking, Diving, Hugging21. Intersectionality22. Live Football in a Pandemic23. Child's Play24. AssessmentAcknowledgmentsIndex

Recenzii

Football is Mark Yakich's reflection on not only the sport itself, but on his own experiences alongside it, from the ways it is portrayed, its implications, and even its language.
In the times of pandemic soccer, Mark Yakich rediscovered the importance of a harmless disease: fever pitch. His well informed and passionate book on the "beautiful game" is a survival kit. It shows that reading about football can be as intense and joyful as smelling the grass.
New Orleans is my favorite city, and pickup is my favorite thing; naturally, I loved reading about Yakich's hometown game, which serves as a starting point for thoughtful, affectionate reflections on football in all its forms.
In this lyric study of the sport of football, Mark Yakich invites us to look away from the bright lights of Wembley and the Maracanã to the ordinary, unmaintained pitches where football is doing its most sacred work. Through stories of his own reverie during pick-up games in New Orleans during the height of the pandemic, to memorable lore of football's eccentric legends, to an etymological survey of the varied global languages of the game, Yakich reveals football's power to help people realize our interconnectedness - and to restore us.