Overview
The book offers a socio-critical analysis of the alcoholic perception in the poetry and fiction of modern American alcoholic writers. Matts Djos focuses on primary indicators of alcohol addiction (fear, manipulation, anger, loneliness, and antic-social behavior) and their expression in modern American literature. After providing a general foundation for analysis of the psychological effects of the disease, this volume scrutinizes the work of Ernest Hemingway, John Berryman, E.A. Robinson, Hart Crane, Theodore Roetheke, Robert Lowell, John Steinbeck, and William Faulkner. The detail provides critical and in-depth perspective on the workings of the alcoholic mind.
Full Product Details
Author: M. Djos
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.370kg
ISBN: 9780230102606
ISBN 10: 0230102603
Pages: 174
Publication Date: 21 June 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
<p> Every ten or twenty years, it seems, there comes a literary critic whose work throws open a window and you suddenly see sharper images, clearer details, deeper shadows. And now comes Djos's Writing Under the Influence , probing the dusky corners of literary alcoholism. This is sociological literary criticism doing exactly what it should do: inconcise and important discussions, Professor Djos confronts his selected authors--Roethke, Hart Crane, Faulkner, E.E. Cummings, Ginsberg and more than a dozen others--and fearlessly focuses on the ways in which the 'alcoholic perspective' informs their work. I know I shall never again teach 'Mister Flood's Party' the same way after reading Djos, and the same goes for Tennessee Williams, Robert Lowell and the others. Writing Under the Influence should be on the reading list of every graduate program in American literature. --Dr. James C. Work, Professor Emeritus, Colorado State University<p> Djos has written a compelling work that fulfills its promise by 'applying a systematic psychological focus to alcoholic literature. . . to explore some of the more puzzling facets of the addictive mind as set as reflected in the poems and stories of modern American writers.' The result is an extraordinary work of literary criticism that illuminates the alcoholic personality, stripping away any romantic notions that both readers and his subjects may have about alcoholism. --Felicia Florine Campbell, Professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Editor, Popular Culture Review
<p> Every ten or twenty years, it seems, there comes a literary critic whose work throws open a window and you suddenly see sharper images, clearer details, deeper shadows. And now comes Djos’s Writing Under the Influence, probing the dusky corners of literary alcoholism.  This is sociological literary criticism doing exactly what it should do: inconcise and important discussions, Professor Djos confronts his selected authors—Roethke, Hart Crane, Faulkner, E.E. Cummings, Ginsberg and more than a dozen others—and  fearlessly focuses on the ways in which the 'alcoholic perspective' informs their work.  I know I shall never again teach 'Mister Flood’s Party' the same way after reading Djos, and the same goes for Tennessee Williams, Robert Lowell and the others.  Writing Under the Influence  should be on the reading list of every graduate program in American literature. --Dr. James C. Work, Professor Emeritus, Colorado State University<p>
<p> Every ten or twenty years, it seems, there comes a literary critic whose work throws open a window and you suddenly see sharper images, clearer details, deeper shadows. And now comes Djos's Writing Under the Influence, probing the dusky corners of literary alcoholism. This is sociological literary criticism doing exactly what it should do: inconcise and important discussions, Professor Djos confronts his selected authors--Roethke, Hart Crane, Faulkner, E.E. Cummings, Ginsberg and more than a dozen others--and fearlessly focuses on the ways in which the 'alcoholic perspective' informs their work. I know I shall never again teach 'Mister Flood's Party' the same way after reading Djos, and the same goes for Tennessee Williams, Robert Lowell and the others. Writing Under the Influence should be on the reading list of every graduate program in American literature. --Dr. James C. Work, Professor Emeritus, Colorado State University<p> Djos has written a compelling work that fulfills i
Author Information
MATTS G. DJOS, Professor of English at Mesa State University, USA.
