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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... poem as a generic motif — in the same way that “ ambrosia ” or “ poi- son " is used further on in the poem . The motif of opium is entangled in a dense web of neoclassical allegorical conventions , so that it would be impossi- ble to ...
... poems about opium during this period.57 One of the earli- est of these was Mary “ Perdita " Robinson , an actress who turned to opium in middle age owing to rheumatism . Robinson dictated her poem " The Maniac " ( 1791 ) to her daughter ...
... poem " Correspon- dences , " a cornerstone of Symbolist aesthetics , we find no mention of hashish in the poem . But when we read the hashish chapter of Les paradis artificiels , we find passages identical in imagery and meaning to ...
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The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs Marcus Boon Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2005 |
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