Soccer has long been known as 'the beautiful game'. This
multi-disciplinary volume explores soccer, soccer culture, and the
representation of soccer in art, film, and literature, using the
critical tools of aesthetics, poetics, and rhetoric. Including
international contributions from scholars of philosophy, literary
and cultural studies, linguistics, art history, and the creative
arts, this book begins by investigating the relationship between
beauty and soccer and asks what criteria should be used to judge
the sport's aesthetic value. Covering topics as diverse as humor,
national identity, style, celebrity, and social media, its chapters
examine the nature of fandom, the role of language, and the
significance of soccer in contemporary popular culture. It also
discusses what one might call the 'stylistics' of soccer, analyzing
how players, fans, and commentators communicate on and off the
pitch, in the press, on social media, and in wider public
discourse. The Aesthetics, Poetics, and Rhetoric of Soccer makes
for fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport,
culture, literature, philosophy, linguistics, and society.
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