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26 - Context, Consequence, and Coincidence

from Section 3 - Putting It Together

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2021

Edward A. Wasserman
Edward A. Wasserman
Affiliation:
University of Iowa
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Summary

The Field of Dreams began as the fictional backdrop for a twenty-page short story written by a forty-three-year-old Canadian graduate student studying literature at a midwestern American university. It’s now scheduled to be the actual site of a Major League Baseball game to be played in the 2021 season. What an amazing story! Could W. P. Kinsella really have been such a remarkable visionary to have so clearly foreseen how such a modest prelude would evolve into such a grand finale – all unfolding in the rustling cornfields of Iowa? Readers can decide for themselves. I’ll unspool the spellbinding saga from short story, to novel, to screenplay, to the silver screen, to a tourist venue, and finally to a Major League ballfield. Context, consequence, and coincidence feature prominently in this account.

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W. P. KinsellaShoeless Joe JacksonIowa Writer’s Workshopshort storynovelField of Dreams filmField of Dreams movie siteMajor League Baseball game
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As If By Design
How Creative Behaviors Really Evolve
 , pp. 287 - 308
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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