BOXING: A CULTURAL HISTORY
Book ID/图书代码： 14932919C00014
English Summary/英文概要： Boxing is one of the oldest and most physical of sports, its visceral appeal lying in the stark struggle for dominance through the brutal silencers of fists and pain. The permeation of boxing into Western culture is the subject of Kasia Boddy’s fascinating and comprehensive investigation. From ancient Greece to the present day, Boddy charts the myriad incarnations of the sport in Western society and the larger-than-life figures who have played pivotal roles in its history. Boxing traces the portrayal of the sport in literature and media, from Greek odes to hip-hop lyrics to silent films, and shows the sport to be a complex cultural act that transforms the voyeur into a participant. Artists and writers have long employed the boxer as their primitive muse and Boddy explores the role of the boxer in the works of writers such as Norman Mailer, Charles Dickens, Ralph Ellison and William Hazlitt, as well as its artistic renderings in neo-classical sculpture, comic books and films such as the Rocky series and Raging Bull. Boxing has also played an important role in social history, as the sport has been a provocative touchstone in politics, race and ethnicity, economics and masculinity through public acclaim or excoriation of legends such as Jack Dempsey, Muhammad Ali, Jack Johnson and Lennox Lewis. Whether as a leisured eighteenth-century pastime of British gentlemen, a crime-shadowed commercial enterprise or a rough pursuit of blue-collar and immigrant workers, boxing is ultimately a theatrical ritual, one in which fundamental oppositions of might, mind and experience clash viciously. An engrossing and readable sport history, this book draws the reader into the world of the boxing ring and exposes its ever-evolving place in our cultural consciousness.
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Awards/获奖情况：’A treasure trove for boxing historians and aficionados ... At nearly five hundred densely packed pages ... Boxing: A Cultural History would seem to include everything that has ever been written, depicted or in any way recorded about boxing... To read Boddy’s book is to confront dozens - hundreds? - of inspired mini-essays.’ --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books
’A serious yet entertaining study, packed with obscure facts and accompanied by a huge selection of marvellous photos and illustrations.’ --Marcel Berlins, The Guardian
’The merit of Kasia Boddy’s meticulously researched and deeply intelligent examination of boxing through the ages is that it refuses to take the pop historian’s route of lazy simplification. The political and moral ambiguity of the fights that have played such a seminal role in shaping human consciousness are chronicled in all their rich and equivocal detail ... her volume is one of the most intelligent sporting books of recent times.’ --The Times
About the Author/作者介绍： Kasia Boddy is lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge and has published widely on British and American literature and film. She is the author of Boxing: A Cultural History (Reaktion, 2008) and The American Short Story Since 1950 (2010), and is editor of The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories (2011).
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