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Könyv Thinking the Olympics Barbara Goff

Thinking the Olympics

The Classical Tradition and the Modern Games

Szerző: Barbara Goff, Michael Simpson
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: Bloomsbury Publishing
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 10-18 napon belül
22 447 Ft
This book is the first to focus on the theme of tradition as an integral feature of the ancient and...

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Szerző
Barbara Goff, Michael Simpson
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2011
oldal
240
EAN
9780715639306
ISBN
0715639307
Enbook ID
04379213
Kiadó
Bloomsbury Publishing
Súly
386
Méretek
234 x 159 x 19

Teljes leírás

This book is the first to focus on the theme of tradition as an integral feature of the ancient and modern Olympic Games. Just as ancient athletes and spectators were conscious of Olympic traditions of poetic praise, sporting achievement, and catastrophic shortcoming, so the revived Games have been consistently cast as a legacy of ancient Greece. The essays here examine how this supposed inheritance has been engineered, celebrated, exploited, or challenged. The Athens Games in 2004 were widely represented as a return to ancient, and modern, origins; the Beijing Games in 2008, meanwhile, saluted a radically different ancient civilisation. What is the Olympic future for ancient Greece? Thinking the Olympics brings together contributions from various disciplines, including cultural history, classics, comparative literature, and art history. Together these perspectives foreground two opposing plots which recur and collide ritually on the occasion of the Games. On the one hand, the Games present themselves as an ideal enactment of pure, intrinsic Olympic values; on the other, the Games appear as a messy performance of extrinsic investments by diverse parties with their own interests, commercial and political. Power, money, property, and identity are persistently at stake in the Games. But in a time when credit and trust among nations are in short supply, the Olympic arena and its flexible traditions may be where exchange can be done.

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