7 Blarney’s Version: The Comic Spirit of Hockey in Paul Quarrington’s King Leary

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Stompin’ Tom Versus Big Al: Two Imaginative Versions of the Game 11
6. 2 The Fighting Soul of Hockey in Ralph Connor’s Glengarry School Days 31
7. 3 Hugh MacLennan and the Two Solitudes of Hockey 47
8. 4 Boys on the Defensive: The Hockey Myth in Scott Young 63
9. 5 Belief and Doubt in Roch Carrier’s “The Hockey Sweater” 87
10. 6 Haunted by Bill Spunska: Roy MacGregor’s The Last Season 115
11. 7 Blarney’s Version: The Comic Spirit of Hockey in Paul Quarrington’s King Leary 137
12. 8 Hockey as a Gateway to the Underworld in Wayne Johnston’s The Divine Ryans 165
13. 9 Playing with the Hero in Richard Harrison’s Hero of the Play 191
14. 10 Hockey, Zen, and the Art of Bill Gaston’s The Good Body 211
15. 11 Cara Hedley’s Twenty Miles and the Challenge of the Hockey Barbie 229
16. 12 The Faustian Bargain of the Athlete- Hero in Randall Maggs’s Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems 249
17. 13 Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse: Reimagining the Home Game 273
18. Conclusion: Return to the Moon 297
19. Publication Credits 303
20. Index 305