Golf Ball: Object Lessons - Softcover

Brown, Dr. Harry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1628921382 ISBN 13: 9781628921380

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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Golf balls embody the complex human relation to the natural world, a will to control nature, but the action of balls in play reveals the futility of the endeavor.

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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)

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Harry Brown explores the composition, history, kinetic life, and the long deterioration of golf balls, which as it turns out may outlive their hitters by a thousand years, in places far beyond our reach. Golf balls embody our efforts to impose our will on the land, whether the local golf course or the Moon, but their unpredictable spin, bounce, and roll often defy our control. Despite their considerable technical refinements, golf balls reveal the futility of control. They inevitably disappear in plain sight and find their way into hazards. Golf balls play with people.Harry Brown's short treatise on the golf ball serves up surprising lessons about the human desire to tame and control the landscape through technology.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1628921382
• ISBN 13: 9781628921380
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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