Writing Under the Influence: Alcoholism and the Alcoholic Perception from Hemingway to Berryman

By Matts G. Djos

Book Overview

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 Humour Through a Glass Darkly: Death and Dissolution Afterword

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349286958
• ISBN13: 9781349286959
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"