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Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania by Ronell, Avital
by Ronell, Avital | HC | Good
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A book that has been read, but is in good condition. Minimal damage to the book cover eg. scuff marks, but no holes or tears. If this is a hard cover, the dust jacket may be missing. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. No highlighting of text, no writing in the margins, and no missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780803239036
- Book Title
- Crack Wars : Literature, Addiction, Mania
- Book Series
- Texts and Contexts Ser.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 1992
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Topic
- General, Modern / General
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 175 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803239033
ISBN-13
9780803239036
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1267613
Product Key Features
Book Title
Crack Wars : Literature, Addiction, Mania
Number of Pages
175 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Modern / General
Publication Year
1992
Genre
Literary Criticism
Book Series
Texts and Contexts Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
91-018917
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
809/.933561
Synopsis
Avital Ronell asks why "there is no culture without drug culture." Tracing and tracking the zones of modern dependencies, she deals with the usual drugs and alcohol (and their celebrities: Freud's cocaine, Baudelaire's hashish, the Victorians' laudanum), and moves beyond them to addictive mappings that are culturally accepted -- an insatiable appetite for romance novels, for instance, and romance itself as well as the satellite technologies of our everyday existence. It is a commonplace of modern culture to presume that there is a subculture or counterculture deeply saturated with drugs, but such modern cultures need subcultures, and need drugs on every level. Culture defines itself, its classes, its power structures, and its economy in terms of how it allows and encourages drugs to circulate. If drugs are dangerous and belong to a thinking of the death drive, that danger seems to increase their appeal for millions. Where do the mind-altering effects of drugs begin? What is art but a kind of drug, a source as Baudelaire and Benjamin state of intoxicated destructuring? On a political scale, Ronell investigates how the so-called drug culture has become the perverted site for state-sanctioned ethnocide. Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary takes up the problems of drugs and addiction in numerous ways, which Ronell unpacks and presents as exemplary of the contemporary fascination with extreme danger. For Ronell, Emma Bovary represents the first addict, embodying a yearning that calls from the bottom of her depleted soul, and which places her in a chronic state of dissatisfaction. Book jacket.
LC Classification Number
PN56.N18R66 1992
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