Joffe, Linda S., "Praise Baseball. Amen: Religious Metaphors in Shoeless Joe and Field of Dreams," in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature, Vol. 9, No. 2, Spring 1992, pp. 153-63.
Joffe discusses some of the allusions to Christianity in the novel and also the differences between the novel and the movie.
Kirtz, Mary K., "Canadian Book, American Film: Shoeless Joe Transfigured on a Field of Dreams," in Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1995, pp. 26-31.
Kirtz argues that the film Field of Dreams eliminates the feminine "moral presence" in the novel and presents the story as a "man's story" with a patriarchal political message.
Lord, Timothy C., "Hegel, Marx, and Shoeless Joe:.....
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