Equivocal spirits : alcoholism and drinking in twentieth-century literature
Thomas B. Gilmore
Bok Engelsk 1987
| Utgitt | Chapel Hill, N.C. : Univ. of North Carolina Press , c1987
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| Omfang | 226 s.
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| Opplysninger | Examining the work of Malcolm Lowry, Evelyn Waugh, Eugene O'Neill, John Cheever, Saul Bellow, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Berrymen, Kingsley Amis, and George Orwell, Gilmore evaluates the major genres of modern literature - drama, poetry, the short story, and the novel - for their distinctive portrayals of drinking or alcoholism. He argues that good literature resists stereotyping the alcoholic and portrays instead a figure divided into a welter of conflicting feelings. Gilmore shows that literature conveys the complex struggle in a fictional character or in a real person in a way that science - which must be diagnostic, analytical, and objective - cannot.
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| ISBN | 0807841749
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