Description: Further DetailsTitle: Crack WarsCondition: NewSubtitle: LITERATURE ADDICTION MANIAISBN-10: 0252071905EAN: 9780252071904ISBN: 9780252071904Publisher: University of Illinois PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/24/2004Description: Avital Ronell asks why "there is no culture without drug culture." She deals with the usual drugs and alcohol (and their celebrities: Freud's cocaine, Baudelaire's hashish, the Victorians' laudanum), and moves beyond them to addictions that are culturally accepted--an insatiable appetite for romance novels, for instance, and romance itself. It is a commonplace of modern culture to presume that there is a subculture or counterculture deeply saturated with drugs, but such modern cultures need subcultures, and need drugs on every level. Culture defines itself, its classes, its power structures, and its economy in terms of how it allows and encourages drugs to circulate. If drugs are dangerous, that danger seems to increase their appeal for millions. If drugs are unnatural and addictive, gasoline is a drug. What is art but a kind of drug, and what is art criticism but a kind of criticism of drugs and drug-induced states? Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary takes up the problems of drugs and addiction in numerous ways, which Ronnell unpacks and presents as examples of the safe and unsafe. From Emma Bovary's romantic hallucinations to her suicide by arsenic, she moves through this realistic novel constantly reaching for the unreal. For Ronell, Emma Bovary represents the first addict, embodying a yearning that calls from the bottom of her humanity, and which it seems can only be satisfied by some sort of drug.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 15mmAuthor: Avital RonellGenre: Literary CriticismItem Weight: 286gTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2004 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Crack Wars
Title: Crack Wars
Subtitle: LITERATURE ADDICTION MANIA
ISBN-10: 0252071905
EAN: 9780252071904
ISBN: 9780252071904
Release Date: 02/24/2004
Release Year: 2004
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Crack Wars : Literature Addiction Mania
Language: English
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: General, American / General, Psychopathology / Addiction
Publication Year: 2004
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Psychology
Author: Avital Ronell
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
