Is there literary value to sports entertainment? Could you consider

yes. read barthes' essay on professional wrestling

Professional wrestling is the quintessential American art form

>>8684907
heh, i liked his idea of wrestling being a modern form of greek theatre.

>>8684927
Could you elaborate?

>>8684949
i could but my english isn't that great. but you can read the whole thing yourself, it's not too long:http://www.ngca.co.uk/docs/Barthes_WorldOfWrestling.pdf

>>8684949
i dont remember it perfectly, but barthes is a semiotician right? so he's all about signs and symbols and reading into things in (usually) warranted ways. since it's kayfabe (i.e., fake), its not about finding out who is the better wrestler. it's about rooting for good guys, booing bad guys, and he expands that to talk about how we expect to see themes of justice, suffering, good vs. evil, etc, that reflect what we hope to see in acutal societal forms of justice, i.e., the law.

i havent read it in a while, it's something like that tho

>>8684889
There's no literary value in performance art.

>>8684889
Mick Foley probably going to win a Nobel next year desu senpai

Literary sport-related writing goes all the way back to the Iliad

>>8684998
i think, that's not entirely true.
http://www.marykellyartist.com/post_partum_document.html

>>8685010
sorry, thought you were talking about conceptual art, disregard my post.