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