This Great Symbol: Pierre de Coubertin and the Origins of the Modern Olympic Games

John J. MacAloon

335 citations0/0 files stored

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Physical Education and Sports Studies National Identity and Symbolism Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

Abstract

1. Preface to the Second Edition 2. Introduction: Laocoon 3. Nobel Works, Glorious Examples, Generous Sacrifices 4. The Vision at Rugby Chapel 5. Athletic Education 6. The Olympic Idea 7. The Mighty Working of a Symbol: From Idea to Organization 8. An Indescribable Spectacle 9. Conclusion: Flags and Flowers 10. Afterword

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 335 citations exist upstream.

Cited by

2008Olympic Cities: Regeneration, City Rebranding and Changing Urban Agendas 2007Access for all: the rise of the Paralympic Games 2008A Sustainable Sports Legacy: Creating a Link between the London Olympics and Sports Participation 2008‘Legacy’ as Managerial/Magical Discourse in Contemporary Olympic Affairs 2009The diffusion of development-through-sport: analysing the history and practice of the Olympic Movement's grassroots outreach to Africa 1984Secular Symbolism: Studies of Ritual, Ceremony, and the Symbolic Order in Modern Life 2011Embodying the nation: football,1emotions and the construction of collective identity 1997Herculean muscle! The classicizing rhetoric of bodybuilding

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.