Sport as symbol : images of the athlete in art, literature and song / Mari Womack.

1. Sport as symbol. Heroic dramas and athletic actors
2. The adversary in nature. The hunt: power of life and death
The hunt domesticated: ritual origins of the bullfight
3. The human adversary. Combat sports: the socialization of conflict
War games
4. The adversary within. Transcending time and space
Metaphors of love, death, and rebirth
5. Symbolic actors and social dramas. High priests and super stars.