The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on DrugsHarvard University Press, 1. des. 2002 - 360 sider From the antiquity of Homer to yesterday's Naked Lunch, writers have found inspiration, and readers have lost themselves, in a world of the imagination tinged and oftentimes transformed by drugs. The age-old association of literature and drugs receives its first comprehensive treatment in this far-reaching work. Drawing on history, science, biography, literary analysis, and ethnography, Marcus Boon shows that the concept of drugs is fundamentally interdisciplinary, and reveals how different sets of connections between disciplines configure each drug's unique history. |
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... Baudelaire , translator of Poe and admirer of Gautier , who was first profoundly associated with opium in the French public's mind — and Baudelaire who was to provide the same mythical example for French writers that De Quincey did in ...
... Baudelaire , hardly a paragon of civic virtue , actu- ally preferred the " fruitful " to the " useless and dangerous . " We do know that outside of his experiences at the Pimodan , Baudelaire was not a regular user of hashish ( nor , it ...
... Baudelaire wanted to escape from the nineteenth century's artificial utopias , but not through Romantic flight into nature . His position was a gnostic one ; “ anywhere , out of this world " was the only place where happiness or truth ...
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The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs Marcus Boon Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2005 |
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