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Echoing Greens

- How Cricket Shaped the English Imagination
Af: Brendan Cooper Engelsk Hardback

Echoing Greens

- How Cricket Shaped the English Imagination
Af: Brendan Cooper Engelsk Hardback
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The importance of cricket to England has been immortalised in the art and literature of a thousand years. For countless artists and writers across the centuries, the culture and aesthetics of cricket - white-clad players, the crack of bat on ball, booming appeals, admiring applause, figures running up to bowl, batsmen leaning, waiting, swinging the blade - have been as essential to the English landscape as the hills and meadows immortalised by Gainsborough, Constable and Turner.

It is a story that is known in part, but one that has never been explored in full. And it is lined with surprises, forgotten tales and unnoticed details - ranging from medieval manuscript illustrations, through a dazzling variety of visual art, poetry, fiction and drama, to recent portraits of contemporary heroes.

Echoing Greens is a fascinating and thoughtful exploration of the bond between cricket and the English imagination. It unveils that beneath cosy patriotic dreams of ''English values'', a much wilder, more complex story exists. Alongside stories of heroic figures, noble values, and pastoral idylls, the literature and the art of cricket also tell of vice, violence, and scandal. The result is a thrilling investigation into the true story behind these representations of the game, and forces us to reconsider the history of cricket itself.

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The importance of cricket to England has been immortalised in the art and literature of a thousand years. For countless artists and writers across the centuries, the culture and aesthetics of cricket - white-clad players, the crack of bat on ball, booming appeals, admiring applause, figures running up to bowl, batsmen leaning, waiting, swinging the blade - have been as essential to the English landscape as the hills and meadows immortalised by Gainsborough, Constable and Turner.

It is a story that is known in part, but one that has never been explored in full. And it is lined with surprises, forgotten tales and unnoticed details - ranging from medieval manuscript illustrations, through a dazzling variety of visual art, poetry, fiction and drama, to recent portraits of contemporary heroes.

Echoing Greens is a fascinating and thoughtful exploration of the bond between cricket and the English imagination. It unveils that beneath cosy patriotic dreams of ''English values'', a much wilder, more complex story exists. Alongside stories of heroic figures, noble values, and pastoral idylls, the literature and the art of cricket also tell of vice, violence, and scandal. The result is a thrilling investigation into the true story behind these representations of the game, and forces us to reconsider the history of cricket itself.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9781408719442
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1408719444
Kategori: Idrætshistorie
Udg. Dato: 30 maj 2024
Længde: 35mm
Bredde: 160mm
Højde: 141mm
Forlag: Little, Brown Book Group
Oplagsdato: 30 maj 2024
Forfatter(e): Brendan Cooper
Forfatter(e) Brendan Cooper


Kategori Idrætshistorie


ISBN-13 9781408719442


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 352


Udgave


Længde 35mm


Bredde 160mm


Højde 141mm


Udg. Dato 30 maj 2024


Oplagsdato 30 maj 2024


Forlag Little, Brown Book Group

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