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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... narcotic use discussed after World War I. Writers who used narcotics viewed themselves as social rebels for whom narcotic use was an entrée to the criminal underworld that sprang up as soon as narcotics were not legally available . In ...
... narcotics . The narcotic " darkness " that Voltaire confronted on his deathbed is ancient ; it was already apparent in ancient Greece , in the poppies growing by the banks of the Lethe , the river of death . But the meaning of this ...
... narcotic use in their formulations of the sublime . Without feeding this brutal machine any further by vilifying addicts and writers , or by creating new forbidden territories that become the site of new ecstatic narcotic trans ...
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The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs Marcus Boon Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2005 |
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