Narratives of performance : an interdisciplinary qualitative ethnography investigating the storied lives of amateur and professional boxers

This thesis identifies the shared pool of narrative resources, which constitute the public discourses and cultural meanings of the sport of boxing, in order to examine how individual boxers engage with them when performing their narrative identities. It is argued that the shared pool of narrative re...

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Main Author: Lennox, P. Solomon
Other Authors: Zarrilli, Phillip
Published: University of Exeter 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.573901