Drunk The Night Before An Anatomy Of Intoxication Marty Roth by Marty Roth 9780816643981, 9780816643974, 0816643989 instant download after payment.

This is also intended to be a book about the reading of cultural texts and, as such, is invested in the materiality of the text. Over the past two  decades, the artist and the work of art have been factored by a number of social imperatives resulting in new aesthetics that insist that the principle of aesthetic disruption, whether gender, race, class, or sexual preference, is not merely anecdotal but crucial to a proper understanding of the work. In a similar light, I want to look at intoxication as part of the deep structure of culture, standing in a powerful relationship to the production of art. More than most of the indexes listed above, mine (along with sexual preference) has a long-standing intimacy with creativity. Many artistic periods exhibit a tantalizing connection to intoxication: Romantic writers with opium, later-nineteenth-century French poets and painters with absinthe, and twentieth-century American novelists and painters with whiskey or the gin martini.