Drunk the night before
Subtitle: an anatomy of intoxication
By: Marty Roth.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press; Brand: Univ Of Minnesota Press; Univ Of Minnesota Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature
Description: "This work traces the cultural history of convivial drinking before the concept of addiction overshadowed intoxication's reputation as a creative, philosophical, and spiritual force. Marty Roth's Drunk the Night Before illustrates altered consciousness from myth to contemporary life, laying bare the behaviors and beliefs, sacred and secular, invested in intoxication." "From the days of antiquity to the twentieth century, Roth follows the often veiled language of intoxication through religion and aesthetics, poetry and art, popular festivals and film. In this work, he examines the cultural roots of love potions and the fountain of youth, drunkenness in Hollywood cinema, the religious concept of a spiritual high versus the condemnation of intoxication."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The mysteries of intoxication; title: Drink poetry; or, the art of feeling very, very good; title: Double Dionysus; title: Socrates undrunk; title: "Out, loathed med'cine! O hated potion, hence!": the magic of literary drinks; title: Spiritual intoxication and the metaphorics of heaven; title: Drinking in style; title: Carnival, creativity, and the sublimation of drunkenness.