Writing Addiction
Subtitle: Towards a Poetics of Desire and Its Others (University of Regina Publications)
Contributors: Bela Szabados (Editor); Kenneth G. Probert (Editor)
Publisher: Canadian Plains Research Center
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780889771765
Subjects: Substance abuse and literature; Psychological aspects; Drug use; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Semantics; Authors; Authorship
First sentence: and the lives of writers/authors, we need to let the light of the depiction of the experiences of addicts illuminate our lives as writers/authors. Second, addiction may have no fixed definitional essence, but its metaphorical and extended uses are best understood by way of comparing a variety of cases in light of the master-slave relationship.