Writing under the influence [Elektronisk resurs] Alcoholism and the alcoholic perception from Hemingway to Berryman / Matts G. Djos.

• Foreword: Alcohol from the Perspective of the Alcoholic Writer * 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 * 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 * Afterword.

• A literary exploration of the alcoholic perception as expressed in the poems and stories of some of America's finest contemporary writers. 
• "Djos has written a compelling work that fulfills its promise by 'applying a systematic psychological focus to alcoholic literature... to explore some of the more puzzling facets of the addictive mind as set as reflected in the poems and stories of modern American writers.' The result is an extraordinary work of literary criticism that illuminates the alcoholic personality, stripping away any romantic notions that both readers and his subjects may have about alcoholism." - Felicia Florine Campbell, Professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Editor, Popular Culture Review. 

Ämnesord

Alcoholics in literature.  (LCSH)

Alcoholism in literature.  (LCSH)

Alcoholism  -- Psychological aspects. (LCSH)

Authors, American  -- Alcohol use -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Authors, American  -- Psychology -- 20th century. (LCSH)

American literature  -- History and criticism -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Literature.  (eflch)

Literary studies: from c 1900 -  -- English -- USA. (bicssc)

Drug & substance abuse: social aspects  -- English -- USA. (bicssc)

Klassifikation

DSBH (ämneskategori)

JFFH1 (ämneskategori)

LIT (ämneskategori)

810.992074 (DDC)