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UNINA9910449968403321 |
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Titolo |
High anxieties : cultural studies in addiction / / Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield, editors |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-59734-654-3 |
0-520-93570-5 |
9786612359453 |
1-282-35945-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (244 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BrodieJanet Farrell |
RedfieldMarc <1958-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Alcoholism in literature |
Alcoholism in motion pictures |
Drugs and literature |
Drugs and motion pictures |
Substance abuse - Social aspects |
Virtual reality - Social aspects |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Addiction and the Ends of Desire -- 2. A Terminal Case -- 3. Narrating National Addictions -- 4. Victorian Highs -- 5. The Rhetoric of Addiction -- 6. Firewater Legacy -- 7. Smoking, Addiction, and the Making of Time -- 8. An Intoxicated Screen -- 9. Welcome to the Pharmacy -- 10. If "Reality Is the Best Metaphor," It Must Be Virtual -- NOTES -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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High Anxieties explores the history and ideological ramifications of the modern concept of addiction. Little more than a century old, the notions of "addict" as an identity and "addiction" as a disease of the will form part of the story of modernity. What is addiction? This collection of essays illuminates and refashions the term, delivering a complex and mature understanding of addiction. Brodie and Redfield's introduction |
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