Writing Under the Influence: Alcoholism and the Alcoholic Perception from Hemingway to Berryman

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
The Foundations of Alcoholic Thinking and the Role of Fantasy, Alienation, and Rebellion....Pages 1-12
Alcoholism in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises: A Wine and Roses Perspective of the Lost Generation....Pages 13-27
Addiction and Spirituality in Contemporary American Poetry: Frustration and Paradox....Pages 29-41
John Berryman’s “Phase Four” and His Precarious Attempt to Find a Compromise between Drunkenness, Sobriety, and the A.A. Twelve Step Program of Recovery....Pages 43-51
The Grand Illusion: Evasion, Survival, and Self-Hate....Pages 53-60
The Alcoholic Isolation and Fall to Self-Destruction in Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Mr. Flood’s Party”....Pages 61-67
Sex and Promiscuity: Conjugal Detachment and the Fear of Intimacy....Pages 69-78
Alcoholic Guilt and Emotional Paralysis: Bathos, Incongruity, and Frustration....Pages 79-86
The Contaminated Vision: The Alcoholic Perspective in Hart Crane’s “The Wine Menagerie”....Pages 87-93
Clowns and Bedlam: The Dark Side of Alcoholic Humor....Pages 95-104
Through a Glass Darkly: Death and Dissolution....Pages 105-113
Afterword....Pages 115-117
Back Matter....Pages 119-174