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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... period of the decay of the great Western empires . Something for bored soldiers to do with their long nights after the natives had been subdued . Or something to ward off the fear of im- pending collapse , deterioration . This sense of ...
... period of time that has been " wasted . " Cocteau moves between defiant affirmation of the pleasures of opium and regretful acknowledgment that it is time to stop taking the drug . The open , aphoristic form of Opium suggests the ...
... period of seeing drugs as mythical , al- legorical powers of nature that make their appearance in literature as symbols , to the modern period , in which drugs are “ artificial " agents of the transforma- tion of the psyche , secretly ...
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The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs Marcus Boon Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2005 |
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