ISBN:
9780520935709
,
0520935705
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online Ressource (ix, 232 p.)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Paralleltitel:
Print version High anxieties
DDC:
394.14
Schlagwort(e):
Substance abuse Social aspects
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Virtual reality Social aspects
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Polytoxicomanie Aspect social
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Drogues et littérature
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Drogues et cinéma
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Alcoolisme dans la littérature
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Alcoolisme au cinéma
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Réalité virtuelle Aspect social
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Drugs and literature
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Drugs and motion pictures
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Alcoholism in literature
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Alcoholism in motion pictures
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Substance abuse Social aspects
;
Virtual reality Social aspects
;
Virtual reality Social aspects
;
Alcoholism in literature
;
Drugs and literature
;
Alcoholism in motion pictures
;
Drugs and motion pictures
;
Substance abuse Social aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Customs & Traditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General
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Alcoholism in literature
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Alcoholism in motion pictures
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Drugs and literature
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Drugs and motion pictures
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Substance abuse ; Social aspects
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Virtual reality ; Social aspects
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Alcoolisme
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Aspect social
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Cinéma
;
Drogue
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Polytoxicomanie
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Réalité virtuelle
;
Toxicomanie
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Thème littéraire
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Thème
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Cultural studies
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Illness & addiction: social aspects
;
Popular culture
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Food and Drink
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Kurzfassung:
Addiction and the ends of desire / Stacey Margolis -- A terminal case: William Burroughs and the logic of addiction / Timothy Melley -- Narrating national addictions: De Quincey, opium, and tea / Cannon Schmitt -- Victorian highs: detection, drugs, and empire / Marty Roth -- The rhetoric of addiction: from Victorian novels to AA / Robyn R. Warhol -- Firewater legacy: alcohol and Native American identity in the fiction of James Fenimore Cooper / Nicholas O. Warner -- Smoking, addiction, and the making of time / Helen Keane -- An intoxicated screen: reflections on film and drugs / Maurizio Viano -- Welcome to the pharmacy: addiction, transcendence, and virtual reality / Ann Weinstone -- If "reality is the best metaphor," it must be virtual / Marguerite Waller.
Kurzfassung:
High Anxieties explores the history and ideological ramifications of the modern concept of addiction. Little more than a century old, the notions of "addict" as an identity and "addiction" as a disease of the will form part of the story of modernity
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Addiction and the ends of desire / Stacey MargolisA terminal case: William Burroughs and the logic of addiction / Timothy Melley -- Narrating national addictions: De Quincey, opium, and tea / Cannon Schmitt -- Victorian highs: detection, drugs, and empire / Marty Roth -- The rhetoric of addiction: from Victorian novels to AA / Robyn R. Warhol -- Firewater legacy: alcohol and Native American identity in the fiction of James Fenimore Cooper / Nicholas O. Warner -- Smoking, addiction, and the making of time / Helen Keane -- An intoxicated screen: reflections on film and drugs / Maurizio Viano -- Welcome to the pharmacy: addiction, transcendence, and virtual reality / Ann Weinstone -- If "reality is the best metaphor," it must be virtual / Marguerite Waller.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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