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Autore |
Earnshaw Steven |
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The existential drinker / / Steven Earnshaw |
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Manchester Michigan : , : Manchester University Press, , 2019 |
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1-5261-3472-1 |
1-5261-4193-0 |
1-5261-3471-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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Collana |
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Manchester scholarship online |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2018. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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I. Whiffs and gleams. Habitual drunkards and metaphysics : case studies from the Victorian period -- Jack London, John Barleycorn (1913) : truth -- II. The existential drinkers. Jean Rhys and drunken consciousness (1929-1939) -- Charles Jackson, The lost weekend (1944) : life projects -- Malcolm Lowry, Under the volcano (1947) : singular experiences -- Hans Fallada, The drinker (1950) : absurdity -- Brian Moore, The lonely passion of Judith Hearne (1955) : abandonment -- Frederick Exley, A fan's notes (1968) : authenticity -- Venedikt Yerofeev, Moscow-Petushki (1970) : self and others -- III. Enough : attic, Vegas, paradise. William Kennedy, Ironweed (1983) : fugitive souls and free spirits -- John O'Brien, Leaving Las Vegas (1990) : suicide -- A.L. Kennedy, Paradise (2004) : love. |
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Drinking to excess has been a striking problem for industrial and post-industrial societies -- who is responsible when an individual opts for a slow suicide? The causes of such drinking have often been blamed on genes, moral weakness, 'disease' (addiction), hedonism, and Romantic illusion. Yet there is another reason: the drinker may act with sincere philosophical intent, exploring the edges of self, consciousness, will, ethics, authenticity and finitude. Beginning with Jack London's John Barleycorn: alcoholic memoirs the book goes on to cover novels such as Jean Rhys's Good morning, midnight, Malcolm Lowry's Under the volcano, Charles Jackson's The lost weekend and John O'Brien's Leaving |
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Las Vegas, and less familiar works such as Frederick Exley's A fan's notes, Venedikt Yerofeev's Moscow-Petushki, and A. L. Kennedy's Paradise. |
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