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The Existential drinker
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Artikel-Nr:
9780719099618
Veröffentl:
2018
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
18.10.2018
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Steven Earnshaw
Gewicht:
654 g
Format:
240x161x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Steven Earnshaw is Professor of English Literature at Sheffield Hallam University
Looks at the nineteenth-century convergence of a new kind of excessive, habitual drinking, and a new way of thinking about the self, which we came to label 'existential'.
I Whiffs and gleams1 Habitual drunkards and metaphysics: case studies from the Victorian period2 Jack London, John Barleycorn (1913): truthII The Existential drinkers3 Jean Rhys and drunken consciousness (1929-1939)4 Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend (1944): life projects5 Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano (1947).: singular experiences6 Hans Fallada, The Drinker (1950): absurdity7 Brian Moore, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955): abandonment8 Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes (1968): authenticity9 Venedikt Yerofeev, Moscow-Petushki (1970): self and othersIII Enough: attic, Vegas, paradise10 William Kennedy, Ironweed (1983): fugitive souls and free spirits11 John O'Brien, Leaving Las Vegas (1990): suicide12 A. L. Kennedy, Paradise (2004): loveConclusionBibliography