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The Existential drinker /
Drinking to excess has been a striking problem for industrial and post-industrial societies -- who is responsible when an individual opts for a slow suicide? The causes of such drinking have often been blamed on genes, moral weakness, 'disease' (addiction), hedonism, and Romantic illusion....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Whiffs and gleams. Habitual drunkards and metaphysics : case studies from the Victorian period
- Jack London, John Barleycorn (1913) : truth
- II. The existential drinkers. Jean Rhys and drunken consciousness (1929-1939)
- Charles Jackson, The lost weekend (1944) : life projects
- Malcolm Lowry, Under the volcano (1947) : singular experiences
- Hans Fallada, The drinker (1950) : absurdity
- Brian Moore, The lonely passion of Judith Hearne (1955) : abandonment
- Frederick Exley, A fan's notes (1968) : authenticity
- Venedikt Yerofeev, Moscow-Petushki (1970) : self and others
- III. Enough : attic, Vegas, paradise. William Kennedy, Ironweed (1983) : fugitive souls and free spirits
- John O'Brien, Leaving Las Vegas (1990) : suicide
- A.L. Kennedy, Paradise (2004) : love.