Steven Earnshaw

The Existential drinker (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526134721
• Artikelnr.: 55007213

Autorenporträt

Steven Earnshaw is Professor of English Literature at Sheffield Hallam University

Inhaltsangabe

I Whiffs and gleams 1 Habitual drunkards and metaphysics: case studies from the Victorian period 2 Jack London
John Barleycorn (1913): truth II The Existential drinkers 3 Jean Rhys and drunken consciousness (1929-1939) 4 Charles Jackson
The Lost Weekend (1944): life projects 5 Malcolm Lowry
Under the Volcano (1947).: singular experiences 6 Hans Fallada
The Drinker (1950): absurdity 7 Brian Moore
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1955): abandonment 8 Frederick Exley
A Fan's Notes (1968): authenticity 9 Venedikt Yerofeev
Moscow-Petushki (1970): self and others III Enough: attic
Vegas
paradise 10 William Kennedy
Ironweed (1983): fugitive souls and free spirits 11 John O'Brien
Leaving Las Vegas (1990): suicide 12 A. L. Kennedy
Paradise (2004): love Conclusion Bibliography