Literature and intoxication : writing, politics and the experience of excess /: writing, politics and the experience of excess. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Eugene Brennan, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 and Russell Williams, American University of Paris, France.
• Editors: Brennan, Eugene, 1988-; Williams, Russell, 1977-
• Contents: Introduction; Eugene Brennan and Russell Williams -- PART I: CULTURAL HISTORIES OF INTOXICATION -- 1. Writing and Intoxication: Drunken Philosophers, Crack Addicts and the Perpetual Present; Russell Williams -- 2. The Green Jam of 'Doctor X'. Science and Literature at the Club des Hashischins; Mike Jay -- PART II: POETIC INTOXICATIONS -- 3. Mourning and Mania: Visions of Intoxication and Death in the Poetry of Georges Bataille; Eugene Brennan -- 4. 'Riding the Lines'. The Poetics of the 'Chevauchements' in Henri Michaux's Drug Experiments; Mathieu Perrot -- 5. Fabulous Operas, Rock'n'Roll Shows: The Intoxication and Poetic Experimentation of Arthur Rimbaud and Jim Morrison; Alessandro Cabiati -- PART III: DIPSOMANIACAL NOVELISTS -- 6. Tipsiness and 'the Reigning Stupefaction' in the British Fiction of the Late 1940s; Joe Kennedy -- 7. 'Drink, She Said': Around the World of Durassian Alcohol; Anne-Lucille Gérardot -- PART IV: POLITICAL AND THEORETICAL CRITIQUES OF INTOXICATION -- 8. Intoxication and Toxicity in a 'Pharmacopornographic Era': Beatriz Preciado's Testo Junkie; Joshua Rivas -- 9. A Systemised Derangement of the Senses: The Situationist International and the Biopolitics of Dérive; Christopher Collier and Joanna Figiel -- 10. 'Beau comme le tremblement des mains dans l'alcoolisme': A Cavalier History of Drugs and Intoxication in the Situationist International; Alastair Hemmens -- 11. Intoxication and Acceleration: The Politics of Immanence; Benjamin Noys -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809/.933561; Literature; Substance abuse and literature; Authorship -- Psychological aspects; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism; Politics and literature; Poetry; European literature; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Literary studies: general; Authorship -- Psychological aspects; Literature, Modern; Politics and literature; Substance abuse and literature; Social Science -- General; Literary Criticism -- Poetry; Literary Criticism -- European -- General; Literary Criticism -- General; Cultural studies; Literary studies: from c 1900; Literature: history & criticism; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Literary theory; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137487667; 1137487666; 9781137487674; 1137487674
• Related ISBNs: 9781349565184; 9781137487650; 1137487658
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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