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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... Peyote's " natural efficacy " was denied , and use of peyote buttons could not therefore be seen as part of natural or medical science . As with all New World substances , there was no precedent in classical or biblical tradition for a ...
... peyote experiment in New York's Greenwich Village before World War I.44 Luhan , who cultivated a bohemian salon through which peo- ple such as John Reed and Eugene O'Neill passed , offered to host a peyote séance in 1914 , at the ...
... peyote within an uncontaminated body and mind . He was hallucinating long before he took part in the peyote rite , seeing signs and mes- sages in the configuration of the mountains around him . When Artaud ar- rived in a Tarahumara ...
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The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs Marcus Boon Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2005 |
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