Literature and Intoxication

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Writing, Politics and the Experience of Excess

   1. Introduction: Writing, Politics and the Experience of Excess

      • Eugene Brennan, Russell Williams

      Pages 1-21

3. Cultural Histories of Intoxication

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Writing and Intoxication: Drunken Philosophers, Crack Addicts and the Perpetual Present

      • Russell Williams

      Pages 25-51

   3. The Green Jam of ‘Doctor X’: Science and Literature at the Club des Hashischins

      • Mike Jay

      Pages 52-63

4. Poetic Intoxications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. Mourning and Mania: Visions of Intoxication and Death in the Poetry of Georges Bataille

      • Eugene Brennan

      Pages 67-80

   3. ‘Riding the Lines’: The Poetics of the ‘Chevauchements’ in Henri Michaux’s Drug Experiments

      • Mathieu Perrot

      Pages 81-96

   4. Fabulous Operas, Rock ‘n’ Roll Shows: The Intoxication and Poetic Experimentation of Arthur Rimbaud and Jim Morrison

      • Alessandro Cabiati

      Pages 97-116

5. Dipsomaniacal Novelists

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Tipsiness and ‘the Reigning Stupefaction’ in the British Fiction of the Late 1940s

      • Joe Kennedy

      Pages 119-129

   3. ‘Drink, She Said’: Around the World of Durassian Alcohol

      • Anne-Lucile Gérardot

      Pages 130-144

6. Political and Theoretical Critiques of Intoxication

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Intoxication and Toxicity in a ‘Pharmacopornographic Era’: Beatriz Preciado’s Testo Junkie

      • Joshua Rivas

      Pages 147-159

   3. A Systemised Derangement of the Senses: The Situationist International and the Biopolitics of Dérive

      • Christopher Collier, Joanna Figiel

      Pages 160-172

   4. ‘Beau comme le tremblement des mains dans l’alcoolisme’: A Cavalier History of Drugs and Intoxication in the Situationist International

      • Alastair Hemmens

      Pages 173-184

   5. Intoxication and Acceleration: The Politics of Immanence

      • Benjamin Noys

      Pages 185-201

7. Back Matter

   Pages 203-209

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This collection traces the intersection between writing and intoxication, from the literary to the theoretical, exploring a diversity of experiences of excess. Comprising a variety of perspectives, this book offers unique insights into how politics and literature have been shaped by states of intoxication.

• Intoxication
• alcohol
• drugs
• philosophy
• politics
• critique
• fiction
• history of literature
• poetics
• poetry

• Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France

  Eugene Brennan

• American University of Paris, France

  Russell Williams

Eugene Brennan, Université Paris 13, France Alessandro Cabiati, University of Edinburgh, UK Christopher Collier, University of Essex, UK Joanna Figiel, City University London, UK Anne-Lucile Gérardot, University of Reims, France Alastair Hemmens, Cardiff University, UK Andrew Hussey, University of London, UK Mike Jay, independent scholar, UK Joe Kennedy, University of Sussex, UK Benjamin Noys, University of Chichester, UK Matthieu Perrot, University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France Joshua Rivas, Princeton University, USA Russell Williams, American University of Paris, France

Policies and ethics