Writing Under the Influence

1. The Foundations of Alcoholic Thinking and the Role of Fantasy, Alienation, and Rebellion
Matts G. Djos

2. Alcoholism in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises: A Wine and Roses Perspective of the Lost Generation
Matts G. Djos

3. Addiction and Spirituality in Contemporary American Poetry: Frustration and Paradox
Matts G. Djos

4. 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
Matts G. Djos

5. The Grand Illusion: Evasion, Survival, and Self-Hate
Matts G. Djos

6. The Alcoholic Isolation and Fall to Self-Destruction in Edwin Arlington Robinson’s “Mr. Flood’s Party”
Matts G. Djos

7. Sex and Promiscuity: Conjugal Detachment and the Fear of Intimacy
Matts G. Djos

8. Alcoholic Guilt and Emotional Paralysis: Bathos, Incongruity, and Frustration
Matts G. Djos

9. The Contaminated Vision: The Alcoholic Perspective in Hart Crane’s “The Wine Menagerie”
Matts G. Djos

10. Clowns and Bedlam: The Dark Side of Alcoholic Humor
Matts G. Djos

11. Through a Glass Darkly: Death and Dissolution
Matts G. Djos

12. Afterword
Matts G. Djos

Nyckelord: Literature, North American Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics