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Author: Dr. Harry Brown
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Dimensions:
Width: 11.80cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 16.40cm
Weight: 0.153kg
ISBN: 9781628921380
ISBN 10: 1628921382
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 29 January 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Golf Ball is a funny, smart, and charming meditation on an unlikely subject. Who knew that the story of this humble little white sphere could tell us so much about our history and culture? Brown weaves cultural history, literary criticism, physics, and philosophy into this wonderful book. His meditation on the golf ball deserves a place on the reading list of the curious golfer and cultural critic alike. Orin Starn, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, USA, and author of The Passion of Tiger Woods Brown starts where the curious amongst us always seem to-by taking things apart. Departing from the physical dissection of a single ball, performed as a boy, Brown rollicks through a detailed and highly entertaining exploration of the history of the game of golf. Golf Ball will fill the air of the 19th Hole with questions answered and stories told. Tom Chiarella, Visiting Writer, Esquire Magazine, and Award-Winning Member of the Golf Writers Association of America An intriguing mix of history, personal anecdote and cutting-edge philosophy, carrying the reader aloft over a range of courses and discourses past and present ... In Golf Ball, Brown has some fun with contemporary thinking whilst never getting too bogged down in the sand trap of theory ... leaving us with some intriguing questions to ponder about the objects we use, lose and overlook every day. Neil Fitzgerald, LapsedHermit.com
Golf Ball is a funny, smart, and charming meditation on an unlikely subject. Who knew that the story of this humble little white sphere could tell us so much about our history and culture? Brown weaves cultural history, literary criticism, physics, and philosophy into this wonderful book. His meditation on the golf ball deserves a place on the reading list of the curious golfer and cultural critic alike. Orin Starn, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, USA, and author of The Passion of Tiger Woods
Golf Ball is a funny, smart, and charming meditation on an unlikely subject. Who knew that the story of this humble little white sphere could tell us so much about our history and culture? Brown weaves cultural history, literary criticism, physics, and philosophy into this wonderful book. His meditation on the golf ball deserves a place on the reading list of the curious golfer and cultural critic alike. Orin Starn, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, USA, and author of The Passion of Tiger Woods Brown starts where the curious amongst us always seem to-by taking things apart. Departing from the physical dissection of a single ball, performed as a boy, Brown rollicks through a detailed and highly entertaining exploration of the history of the game of golf. Golf Ball will fill the air of the 19th Hole with questions answered and stories told. Tom Chiarella, Visiting Writer, Esquire Magazine, and Award-Winning Member of the Golf Writers Association of America An intriguing mix of history, personal anecdote and cutting-edge philosophy, carrying the reader aloft over a range of courses and discourses past and present ... In Golf Ball, Brown has some fun with contemporary thinking whilst never getting too bogged down in the sand trap of theory ... leaving us with some intriguing questions to ponder about the objects we use, lose and overlook every day. Neil Fitzgerald, LapsedHermit.com Golf Ball... begins with Harry Brown explaining how his object chose him. As an eight-year-old homegrown Heideggerian of a boy, he claims, he sliced a golf ball in two to inquire into its hardness. The book derives from this severing. It inhabits the 'glimpse of internal structure' that it offered, unfolding in two parts: 'Out: Thing,' and 'In: Phenomenon.' -- Julian Yates Los Angeles Review of Books
Author Information
Harry Brown is Associate Professor of English at DePauw University, USA. He is the author of Injun Joe’s Ghost (University of Missouri, 2004) and Videogames and Education (M.E. Sharpe, 2008). He has published articles on American literature and culture in The Journal of American and Comparative Culture, Studies in Medievalism, and Paradoxa, as well as original fiction in Blueline and The Mississippi Review.
