On the Corinthian spirit : the decline of amateurism in sport / D.J. Taylor.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Yellow Jersey Press, 2006Description: 131 pages ; 18 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0224075853
- 9780224075855
- 306.4830941 22
- GV605 .T39 2006
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Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 306.4830941 TAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A373256B |
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306.483094 SPO Sport, representation and evolving identities in Europe / | 306.4830941 AMA Amateurism in British sport : it matters not who won or lost / | 306.4830941 KEW Sport : social problems and issues / | 306.4830941 TAY On the Corinthian spirit : the decline of amateurism in sport / | 306.4830941090512 SPO Sport policy and politics in an era of austerity / | 306.4830942819 SPO Sport, leisure and culture in the postmodern city / | 306.483094309042 JEN Body by Weimar : athletes, gender, and German modernity / |
"Notes and further reading": p. 128-131.
Includes bibliographical references.
'On The Corinthian Spirit' contains many heroes, from 'Charlie Bam', the Corinthian defender, who once played with a broken leg, to the boys' school story hero Strickland of the Sixth, & Old Etonian George Orwell. The author describes a changing moral universe with profound consequences both for sport & the world beyond it.
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