Alcoholism and the alcoholic perception of modern American writers
By: Matts G. Djos.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230102606
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Alcoholics in literature; Alcoholism in literature; Alcoholism -- Psychological aspects; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Alcohol use; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Psychology
Table of contents: title: The foundations of alcoholic thinking and the role of fantasy, alienation, and rebellion; title: Alcoholism in Ernest Hemingway's "The sun also rises": a wine and roses perspective of the lost generation; title: Addiction and spirituality in contemporary American poetry: frustration and paradox; title: John Berryman's "Phase four" and his precarious attempt to find a compromise between drunkenness, sobriety, and the A.A. twelve step program; title: The grand illusion: evasion, survival, and self-hate; title: The alcoholic isolation and fall to self-destruction in Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Mr. Flood's party"; title: Sex and promiscuity: conjugal detachment and the fear of intimacy; title: Alcoholic guilt and emotional paralysis: Bathos, incongruity, and frustration; title: The contaminated vision: the alcoholic perspective in Hart Crane's "The wine menagerie"; title: Clowns and bedlam: the dark side of alcoholic humor; title: Through a glass darkly: death and dissolution.