The many levels of sports narration

Abstract: 'At its most a typical sports narrative records what happens in space and time. Alongside this traditional history of events there has emerged a research approach that might be called structural sports history. Its methods move in the world under the surface of facts, explored by researchers in ways that resemble archaeology. The aim is to uncover the changed human relationships and new forms of presence in sport-figurations of corporeality, space and time. Where the event-history approach recounts and recapitulates, the new approach works towards interpretation and understanding. These two are joined by yet a third element, the most intimate aspect of sports narratives: microhistory and the routes that it opens to the interfaces between the public and the private and the general and the particular, where the reader-oriented focus of the experiencing and narrating subject is necessarily foregrounded and at this point surface such elements of narrativity as the 'confessional', the '

Object Details

• Alternative title: Die vielen Ebenen der Sporterzählung
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: The many levels of sports narration ; volume:31 ; number:1 ; year:2006 ; pages:230-244 ; Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; Historical social research ; 31, Heft 1 (2006), 230-244

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Geschichte

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Silvennoinen, Martti

Further information

• DOI: 10.12759/hsr.31.2006.1.230-244
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-30083
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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