With the rise of the novel as literary form, the nineteenth century invented a new way of problematizing the question of alcohol and drugs: the literary narration of addictive behavior. This particular problematization of addiction is rarely analysed as such, even though, during the course of the 20th century, it has been both accredited and amplified to the point of challenging the moral or medical views that continue to capture the attention of researchers in the field. This trend is most noticeable in the United States where the narration of addictive behavior has become a major theme in American literature, ever since the publication in 1953 of William S. Burroughs' semi-autobiographical novel, "Junkie". In this perspective, the present...
This chapter is from the book Beyond the Pleasure Dome: Writing and Addiction from the Romantics. Th...
This article aims to compare two literary works from two different countries with a similar motif, w...
Different cultures and the specific culture manifested within them are intrinsically linked to addic...
With the rise of the novel as literary form, the nineteenth century invented a new way of problemati...
Entertainment and mass media are proven to be an addictive aspect of our everyday lives. David Foste...
La littérature « stupéfiante » apparaît à travers les substances addictives prises par les poètes dè...
La littérature stupéfiante apparaît à travers les substances addictives prises par les poètes dès le...
Ever since De Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" announced the reality of opium addic...
This paper examines D.F. Wallace’s Infinite Jest as “the scroll fragments of a distant future” (Don ...
Scholarship on David Foster Wallace understandably tends to focus on addiction in his novel Infinite...
This thesis examines the representation of drugs and the drug addict in English and American narrati...
textIn this project, I argue that David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite jest (or IJ) is both ab...
This thesis employs a poststructuralist framework to consider the possibilities for agency and resis...
Infinite Jest is a one-thousand, seventy-nine page novel and it weighs almost three pounds; it is he...
In David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, abstraction is a source of terror, for it is hostile to emp...
This chapter is from the book Beyond the Pleasure Dome: Writing and Addiction from the Romantics. Th...
This article aims to compare two literary works from two different countries with a similar motif, w...
Different cultures and the specific culture manifested within them are intrinsically linked to addic...
With the rise of the novel as literary form, the nineteenth century invented a new way of problemati...
Entertainment and mass media are proven to be an addictive aspect of our everyday lives. David Foste...
La littérature « stupéfiante » apparaît à travers les substances addictives prises par les poètes dè...
La littérature stupéfiante apparaît à travers les substances addictives prises par les poètes dès le...
Ever since De Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" announced the reality of opium addic...
This paper examines D.F. Wallace’s Infinite Jest as “the scroll fragments of a distant future” (Don ...
Scholarship on David Foster Wallace understandably tends to focus on addiction in his novel Infinite...
This thesis examines the representation of drugs and the drug addict in English and American narrati...
textIn this project, I argue that David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite jest (or IJ) is both ab...
This thesis employs a poststructuralist framework to consider the possibilities for agency and resis...
Infinite Jest is a one-thousand, seventy-nine page novel and it weighs almost three pounds; it is he...
In David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, abstraction is a source of terror, for it is hostile to emp...
This chapter is from the book Beyond the Pleasure Dome: Writing and Addiction from the Romantics. Th...
This article aims to compare two literary works from two different countries with a similar motif, w...
Different cultures and the specific culture manifested within them are intrinsically linked to addic...