The Rhetorical Myth of the Athlete as a Moral Hero: The Implications of Steroids in Sport and the Threatened Myth
This research analyzes changes in the rhetoric of a sustaining myth in order to better assess what happens when a myth is threatened. By examining American sport and its current struggle to withstand the widespread use of steroids, the author investigates how public discourse about the scandal turns...
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| Language: | en |
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LSU
2008
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-07102008-110841/ |