Introduction / Angie Abdou
1 W.P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe: Real People and Fantasy Quests / Fred Mason
2 “I join them in the circle”: Mythologizing Hockey and Identity in Paul Quarrington’s King Leary / Cara Hedley
3 Hockey, Humour, and Play Wayne Johnston’s The Divine Ryans / Jason Blake
4 “steel on water frozen calm”: the Poetry of Hockey in Richard Harrison’s Hero of the Play / Paul Martin
5 Glaciers, Embodiment, and the Sublime: An Introduction to Ecocriticism and Thomas Wharton’s Icefields / Cory Willard
6 Hockey, Zen and the Art of The Good Body / Jamie Dopp
7 The Sporting Woman in Literature: Strategies of Exclusion and the Absence-Presence of the Male Athlete in Cara Hedley’s Twenty Miles / Susan J. Bandy
8 The Darkening Path: the Hero-Athlete Reconsidered in The Bone Cage / Gyllian Phillips
9 “Open the door to the roaring darkness”:the enigma of Terry Sawchuk in Randall Maggs’ Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems / Paul Martin
10 From Tank to Deep Water: Samantha Warwick's Sage Island / Jamie Dopp
11 Identity and the Athlete: Alexander MacLeod’s “Miracle Mile” / Laura K Davis
12 Decolonizing the Hockey Novel: Ambivalence & Apotheosis in Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse / Sam McKegney and Trevor Phillips
