Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Developments
- Part III Applications
- Chapter 13 Inebriation
- Chapter 14 Vampires, Alterity, and Strange Eating
- Chapter 15 Toast and the Familiar in Children’s Literature
- Chapter 16 Food, Humor, and Gender in Ishigaki Rin’s Poetry
- Chapter 17 Food, Hunger, and Irish Identity
- Chapter 18 Postcolonial Hungers
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Chapter 13 - Inebriation
The Poetics of Drink
from Part III - Applications
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Book contents
- Food and Literature
- Cambridge Critical Concepts
- Food and Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II Developments
- Part III Applications
- Chapter 13 Inebriation
- Chapter 14 Vampires, Alterity, and Strange Eating
- Chapter 15 Toast and the Familiar in Children’s Literature
- Chapter 16 Food, Humor, and Gender in Ishigaki Rin’s Poetry
- Chapter 17 Food, Hunger, and Irish Identity
- Chapter 18 Postcolonial Hungers
- Afterword
- Index
- Cambridge Critical Concepts (continued from page iii)
- References
Summary
The poetics of drink is a poetics of conflict. On the one hand, there are the bull-roarers of Bacchus, the orgiastic Maenads, the mystical priests of the vine, the poets and prophets whose drinking songs or sacraments celebrate the inspiring and perhaps entheogenic virtues of consciousness-transforming intoxication. On the other hand, there are the Malvolios, the hatchet-wielding Carrie Nations, the temperance workers, and–most telling of all–the recovering alcoholics, who testify to the disease and dis-ease of drunkenness. This essay offers an exploration of poetic inspiration and intoxication. The confusion of spirit as alcohol with spirit as soul or breath helps explain why a poetics of drink seems to have shaped or shadowed the poetry–and fiction–of so many writers. Her analysis includes “alcoholic writers” from a long list of Nobel prize winners (Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O’Neill, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner) and beyond the Nobel winners, Hart Crane, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Louise Bogan, Dylan Thomas, Delmore Schwartz, Philip Larkin, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Raymond Carver, Elizabeth Bishop, John Cheever, Dorothy Parker, among others.
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