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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Introduction
  3. 1. W. P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe: The Fairy Tale, the Hero’s Quest, and the Magic Realism of Baseball
  4. 2. The Myth of Hockey and Identity in Paul Quarrington’s King Leary
  5. 3. Hockey, Humour, and Play in Wayne Johnston’s The Divine Ryans
  6. 4. The Poetry of Hockey in Richard Harrison’s Hero of the Play
  7. 5. Glaciers, Embodiment, and the Sublime: An Ecocritical Approach to Thomas Wharton’s Icefields
  8. 6. Hockey, Zen, and the Art of Bill Gaston’s The Good Body
  9. 7. The Darkening Path: The Hero-Athlete Reconsidered in Angie Abdou’s The Bone Cage
  10. 8. “Open the door to the roaring darkness”: The Enigma of Terry Sawchuk in Randall Maggs’s Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems
  11. 9. From Tank to Deep Water: Myth and History in Samantha Warwick’s Sage Island
  12. 10. Identity and the Athlete: Alexander MacLeod’s “Miracle Mile”
  13. 11. Decolonizing the Hockey Novel: Ambivalence and Apotheosis in Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse
  14. Contributors

1 So much so, that to go into it in really specific detail would take up far too much space. Readers interested in this would do well to consult Brian Aitken’s 1990 essay “Baseball as Sacred Doorway in the Writing of W.P. Kinsella,” which discusses Ray and the monomyth in fourteen stages. What is discussed here draws on this essay, unless otherwise noted.

2 Making further connections to Christianity, this text, reworded by Kinsella, is spoken by Jesus in the New Testament, in John 6:63: “The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” My thanks to Joyce Hildebrandt for this additional insight.

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