| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 174 pages) |
| Contents |
The foundations of alcoholic thinking and the role of fantasy, alienation, and rebellion -- Alcoholism in Ernest Hemingway's "The sun also rises": a wine and roses perspective of the lost generation -- Addiction and spirituality in contemporary American poetry: frustration and paradox -- John Berryman's "Phase four" and his precarious attempt to find a compromise between drunkenness, sobriety, and the A.A. twelve step program of recovery -- The grand illusion: evasion, survival, and self-hate -- The alcoholic isolation and fall to self-destruction in Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Mr. Flood's party" -- Sex and promiscuity: conjugal detachment and the fear of intimacy -- Alcoholic guilt and emotional paralysis: Bathos, incongruity, and frustration -- The contaminated vision: the alcoholic perspective in Hart Crane's "The wine menagerie" -- Clowns and bedlam: the dark side of alcoholic humor -- Through a glass darkly: death and dissolution |
| Summary |
In this book, the author conducts a literary exploration of the alcoholic perception as expressed in the poems and stories of some of America's finest contemporary writers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-170) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Alcoholics in literature.
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Alcoholism in literature.
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Alcoholism -- Psychological aspects.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Alcohol use
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Psychology
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Literary studies: from c 1900 -- English -- USA.
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Drug & substance abuse: social aspects -- English -- USA.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Literature.
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Alcoholics in literature
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Alcoholism in literature
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Alcoholism -- Psychological aspects
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American literature
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Authors, American -- Alcohol use
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Authors, American -- Psychology
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230109131 |
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0230109136 |
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9780230102606 |
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0230102603 |
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9781349286959 |
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1349286958 |
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1282915363 |
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9781282915367 |
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9786612915369 |
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6612915366 |
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