| Description |
xxii, 228 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-215) and index. |
| Contents |
The mysteries of intoxication -- Drink poetry; or, The art of feeling very, very good -- Double Dionysus: ambiguities in the discourse of intoxication -- Socrates undrunk: literature writing philosophy in Plato's Symposium -- "Out, loathed med'cine! O hated potion, hence!": the magic of literary drinks -- Spiritual intoxication and the metaphorics of heaven -- Drinking in style: a Horatian aesthetic -- Carnival, creativity, and the sublimation of drunkenness. |
| Subject |
Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature.
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Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature. |
| ISBN |
0816643970 hc/j alkaline paper |
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0816643989 paperback alkaline paper |
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