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The Existential drinker
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Artikel-Nr:
9781526134721
Veröffentl:
2018
Einband:
EPUB
Seiten:
288
Autor:
Steven Earnshaw
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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’.
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’.
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 gleams
1 Habitual drunkards and metaphysics: case studies from the Victorian period
2 Jack LondonJohn Barleycorn (1913): truth
II The Existential drinkers
3 Jean Rhys and drunken consciousness (1929-1939)
4 Charles JacksonThe Lost Weekend (1944): life projects
5 Malcolm LowryUnder the Volcano (1947).: singular experiences
6 Hans FalladaThe Drinker (1950): absurdity
7 Brian MooreThe Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955): abandonment
8 Frederick ExleyA Fan’s Notes (1968): authenticity
9 Venedikt YerofeevMoscow-Petushki (1970): self and others
III Enough: attic, Vegas, paradise
10 William KennedyIronweed (1983): fugitive souls and free spirits
11 John O’BrienLeaving Las Vegas (1990): suicide
12 A. L. KennedyParadise (2004): love
Conclusion
Bibliography
1 Habitual drunkards and metaphysics: case studies from the Victorian period
2 Jack LondonJohn Barleycorn (1913): truth
II The Existential drinkers
3 Jean Rhys and drunken consciousness (1929-1939)
4 Charles JacksonThe Lost Weekend (1944): life projects
5 Malcolm LowryUnder the Volcano (1947).: singular experiences
6 Hans FalladaThe Drinker (1950): absurdity
7 Brian MooreThe Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955): abandonment
8 Frederick ExleyA Fan’s Notes (1968): authenticity
9 Venedikt YerofeevMoscow-Petushki (1970): self and others
III Enough: attic, Vegas, paradise
10 William KennedyIronweed (1983): fugitive souls and free spirits
11 John O’BrienLeaving Las Vegas (1990): suicide
12 A. L. KennedyParadise (2004): love
Conclusion
Bibliography