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- catalog abstract ""Of the eight American Nobel Prize winners in literature, three--Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill and William Faulkner--were alcoholic drinkers, and two--Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck--were hard drinkers. Almost all critical comment about these writers has treated their drinking habits a somehow separate from their work. Thomas Gilmore argues that the result is neither good biography nor good literary criticism. He shows how the drinking and the work can each shed light on the other. Although readers and critics acknowledge that many modern writers tend to be heavy drinkers, [title] is the first full-length study of drinking as it is depicted in literature, both by writers who have had drinking problems and those who have not. This interdisciplinary study of science and literature explores the ways scientific knowledge of alcoholism may enlighten the reader as well as the means by which literature may confirm, intensify, dramatize, extend, and occasionally even challenge empirical studies. Examining the work of Malcom Lowry, Evelyn Waugh, Eugene O'Neill, John Cheever, Saul BEllow, F. Scot Fitzgerald, John Berryman, Kingsley Amis, and George Orwell, Gilmore evaluates the major genres of modern literature--drama, poetry, the short story, the novel--for the distinctive portrayals of drinking or alcoholism. He argues that good literature resists stereotyping the alcoholic and portrays instead a figure divided into a welter of conflicting feelings. Gilmore shows that literature conveys the complex struggle in a fictional character or in a real person in a way that science--which must be diagnostic, analytical, and objective--cannot."--Cover [p. 4].".
- catalog contributor b775629.
- catalog created "c1987.".
- catalog date "1987".
- catalog date "c1987.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1987.".
- catalog description ""Of the eight American Nobel Prize winners in literature, three--Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill and William Faulkner--were alcoholic drinkers, and two--Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck--were hard drinkers. Almost all critical comment about these writers has treated their drinking habits a somehow separate from their work. Thomas Gilmore argues that the result is neither good biography nor good literary criticism. He shows how the drinking and the work can each shed light on the other. Although readers and critics acknowledge that many modern writers tend to be heavy drinkers, [title] is the first full-length study of drinking as it is depicted in literature, both by writers who have had drinking problems and those who have not. This interdisciplinary study of science and literature explores the ways scientific knowledge of alcoholism may enlighten the reader as well as the means by which literature may confirm, intensify, dramatize, extend, and occasionally even challenge empirical studies. Examining the work of Malcom Lowry, Evelyn Waugh, Eugene O'Neill, John Cheever, Saul BEllow, F. Scot Fitzgerald, John Berryman, Kingsley Amis, and George Orwell, Gilmore evaluates the major genres of modern literature--drama, poetry, the short story, the novel--for the distinctive portrayals of drinking or alcoholism. He argues that good literature resists stereotyping the alcoholic and portrays instead a figure divided into a welter of conflicting feelings. Gilmore shows that literature conveys the complex struggle in a fictional character or in a real person in a way that science--which must be diagnostic, analytical, and objective--cannot."--Cover [p. 4].".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [201]-216.".
- catalog description "The place of hallucinations in 'Under the Volcano' -- Brideshead revisited: Sebastian's alcoholism as a spiritual illness -- The iceman cometh and the anatomy of alcoholism -- Drinking and society in the fiction of John Cheever -- Albee's drinking: Bellow's The victim -- The winding road to Pat Hobby: Fitzgerald confronts alcoholism -- John Berryman and drinking: from jest to sober earnest -- Jim, Jake, and Gordon: alcohol and comedy.".
- catalog extent "xi, 226 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Equivocal spirits.".
- catalog identifier "0807817260".
- catalog identifier "0807841749 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Equivocal spirits.".
- catalog issued "1987".
- catalog issued "c1987.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Equivocal spirits.".
- catalog subject "810/.9/355 19".
- catalog subject "Alcoholics in literature.".
- catalog subject "Alcoholism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Alcoholism.".
- catalog subject "American literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Amis, Kingsley Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Bellow, Saul Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Berryman, John, 1914-1972 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Cheever, John Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Drinking customs in literature.".
- catalog subject "Drinking in literature.".
- catalog subject "Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Literature.".
- catalog subject "Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Orwell, George, 1903-1950 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "PS228.A58 G55 1987".
- catalog subject "WM 274 G488e 1987".
- catalog subject "Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The place of hallucinations in 'Under the Volcano' -- Brideshead revisited: Sebastian's alcoholism as a spiritual illness -- The iceman cometh and the anatomy of alcoholism -- Drinking and society in the fiction of John Cheever -- Albee's drinking: Bellow's The victim -- The winding road to Pat Hobby: Fitzgerald confronts alcoholism -- John Berryman and drinking: from jest to sober earnest -- Jim, Jake, and Gordon: alcohol and comedy.".
- catalog title "Equivocal spirits : alcoholism and drinking in twentieth-century literature / Thomas B. Gilmore.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".