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Football as Literature adopts semiotics as a framework to compare football (soccer) to literature. The football field is akin to the plot or stage in narrative or dramatic modes, respectively, and the players are viewed as characters whose metamorphoses, in the text of football, are occasioned from the label of their positions to the completeness of the plot by the kinetic power of the ball. In employing this commentary, a standard football match is seen as a representation of the active text. Particularly, without commentary football unfolds as an unspoken semiotic narrative. Football is seen, therefore, as existing in a continuum of signification encapsulated especially in the acknowledged genres of literature.

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Utibe Hanson is a literary scholar and poet who earned his master's degree in literature from the University of Ibadan, in nigeria. He obtained his bachelor's degree from the University of Uyo, where he conducted a study in critical stylistics showing how the form of a literary work is inextricable from the content. Utibe Hanson is a gifted teacher who had begun teaching right from his days in secondary school and has done so until now. He currently works at the Centre for General Studies at the University of Ibadan as a tutor of English.

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