03826nam 22006615 450 991087466350332120240713130844.09783031654268(electronic bk.)978303165425110.1007/978-3-031-65426-8(MiAaPQ)EBC31526847(Au-PeEL)EBL31526847(CKB)32813337900041(DE-He213)978-3-031-65426-8(EXLCZ)993281333790004120240713d2024 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAddiction Literature's Past and Present /by Mark Ronan1st ed. 2024.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2024.1 online resource (323 pages)Print version: Ronan, Mark Addiction Literature's Past and Present Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 9783031654251 Premodern Addiction and Addiction Literature -- Chapter One, Modern Conceptions of Addiction -- Chapter Two, Modern Addiction Literature -- Chapter Three, Premodern Addiction Discourse, Antiquity to Medieval -- Chapter Four, Addicted to Love -- Chapter Five, Anthropomorphised Beasts and Bestial Men -- Conclusion.Addiction Literature's Past and Present aims to realign consideration of addiction as a transhistorical and transcultural aspect of the human condition. This book illuminates the premodern roots of the linguistic and narrative materials of addiction discourse and argues for Addiction Literature to be considered as a distinct literary phenomenon, with a history stretching back to Antiquity. Addiction, as it is understood in this book, exists at the intersection between appetite, habit and impaired personal behavioural agency. This book begins by exploring the ways in which we articulate the experience (both lived and observed) of addiction today, uncovering a core set of conceptual components and discursive tropes which are commonly associated with modern understandings of the phenomenon. Having established a common set of tropes and features which distinguish modern Addiction Literature as a distinct literary mode, it then considers premodern texts through this lens, revealing similar patterns of conception and convention in a broad range of historical periods and literary genres from Aesop to Shakespeare. Mark Ronan is an adult literacy tutor working primarily with recovering substance-users and providing support for everything from basic literacy skills to creative and reflective personal writing. He also teaches and lectures with the School of English in University College Dublin, Ireland.LiteratureHistory and criticismMedicine and the humanitiesScienceHistoryLiterature, MedievalClassical literatureLiterature, AncientLiterary HistoryMedical HumanitiesHistory of ScienceMedieval LiteratureClassical and Antique LiteratureLiteratureHistory and criticism.Medicine and the humanities.ScienceHistory.Literature, Medieval.Classical literature.Literature, Ancient.Literary History.Medical Humanities.History of Science.Medieval Literature.Classical and Antique Literature.809Ronan Mark792946MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910874663503321Addiction Literature's Past and Present4183620UNINA