The erotic in sports / Allen Guttmann.

By:

Guttmann, Allen [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0231105568
9780231105569

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

796.01 20

LOC classification:

GV706.4 .G88 1996

Contents:

Candor, euphemism, and denial -- I: Historical vicissitudes -- Antiquity -- From the middle ages to the renaissance -- Modern times -- II: The guises of eros -- Erotic athleticism and popular culture -- Eros imagined -- Eros and psyche -- Concluding arguments -- How does the erotic differ from the pornographic?

Summary: In The Erotic in Sports, Allen Guttmann illuminates a topic commonly hidden in the shadows, drawing upon literature, art, modern mass media, and traditional historical sources to describe and comment upon its importance across nearly three millennia of Western history. Investigating aesthetic ideals that romanticize the lithe, agile fencer at one historical moment and the massively muscled football player at another, surveying ancient legends and products of pop culture, Guttmann's groundbreaking work uncovers a vast array of evidence that cultures across the ages have celebrated, glorified, censured, and denied the erotic aspects of sports.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-232) and index.

In The Erotic in Sports, Allen Guttmann illuminates a topic commonly hidden in the shadows, drawing upon literature, art, modern mass media, and traditional historical sources to describe and comment upon its importance across nearly three millennia of Western history. Investigating aesthetic ideals that romanticize the lithe, agile fencer at one historical moment and the massively muscled football player at another, surveying ancient legends and products of pop culture, Guttmann's groundbreaking work uncovers a vast array of evidence that cultures across the ages have celebrated, glorified, censured, and denied the erotic aspects of sports.

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