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Post, Felix. "Verbal Creativity, Depression and Alcoholism." British Journal of Psychiatry 168, no. 5 (May 1996): 545–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.168.5.545.

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BackgroundAn earlier study of 291 world famous men had shown that only visual artists and creative writers were characterised, in comparison with the general population, by a much higher prevalence of pathological personality traits and alcoholism. Depressive disorders, but not any other psychiatric conditions, had afflicted writers almost twice as often as men with other high creative achievements. The present investigation was undertaken to confirm these findings in a larger and more comprehensive series of writers, and to discover causal factors for confirmed high prevalences of affective conditions and alcoholism in writers.MethodData were collected from post-mortem biographies and, where applicable, translated into DSM diagnoses. The frequencies of various abnormalities and deviations were compared between poets, prose fiction writers, and playwrights.ResultsA high prevalence in writers of affective conditions and of alcoholism was confirmed. That of bipolar affective psychoses exceeded population norms in poets, who in spite of this had a lower prevalence of all kinds of affective disorders, of alcoholism, of personality deviations, and related to this, of psychosexual and marital problems, than prose fiction and play writers.ConclusionsA hypothesis is developed, which links the greater frequency of affective illnesses and alcoholism in playwrights and prose writers, in comparison with poets, to differences in the nature and intensity of their emotional imagination. This hypothesis could be tested by clinical psychologists collaborating with experts in literature on random samples of different kinds of writers.

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Klepuszewski, Wojciech. "‘The Delightful Logic of Intoxication’: Fictionalising Alcoholism." Acta Neophilologica 52, no. 1-2 (December 17, 2019): 97–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.52.1-2.97-118.

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Alcohol invariably connotes different, often conflicting, feelings. As Iain Gately rightly observes in Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol (2009), it “has been credited with the powers of inspiration and destruction” (1). This reflection is as relevant to classical antiquity, when wine was savoured during the Greek symposia, as to the modern world, in which alcohologists study the devastating effects of alcohol abuse. However, much as sociological, psychological, and medical research into alcoholism provide statistics, problem-analysis, and therapeutic approaches, literature offers representations of alcoholism which allow for a more profound insight into alcohol dependence and its many implications. This article focuses on how alcoholism is dissected and contextualised in literature, predominantly in contemporary English fiction.

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Meier, Thomas K., and John W. Crowley. "The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction." American Literature 67, no. 4 (December 1995): 865. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927912.

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Curnutt, Kirk. "The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 41, no. 2 (1995): 350–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.1995.0062.

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Brisbane, Frances Larry. "Using Contemporary Fiction With Black Children and Adolescents in Alcoholism Treatment." Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly 2, no. 3-4 (October 2, 1985): 179–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j020v02n03_12.

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Medoro, Dana. "Introduction: Edgar Allan Poe and Nineteenth-Century Medicine." Poe Studies 50, no. 1 (2017): 2–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/poe.2017.a681401.

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ABSTRACT: This introduction to a multi-essay feature on Edgar Allan Poe and nineteenth-century medicine takes a biographical approach to Poe’s fascination with the practices of medicine in his lifetime and provides an overview of the variety of medical procedures, utensils, nostrums, scandals, and theories that traverse the pages of his fiction. Addressing the notoriety surrounding his alcoholism, the introduction also explores Poe’s drinking as a form of self-medicating, comprehended against the background of the deeply unjust, disordered economic system of antebellum America. The rationale for the papers included in the special feature follows from this viewpoint, showing how each covers the representation of a particular medical practice in Poe’s fiction alongside a keen understanding of the world in which he lived.

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Rivinus, Timothy M. "Book Review: The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction." Literature and Medicine 14, no. 2 (1995): 263–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lm.1995.0020.

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Jackson, Thomas H. "Books Review: The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in American Modernist Fiction." Contemporary Drug Problems 22, no. 4 (December 1995): 735–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009145099502200410.

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WEISS, RICHARD M. "WRITING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: SCIENCE VERSUS FICTION IN THE ANALYSIS OF CORPORATE ALCOHOLISM PROGRAMS." Personnel Psychology 40, no. 2 (June 1987): 341–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6570.1987.tb00607.x.

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Mai, Anne-Marie. "Märta Tikkanen’s gender and alcohol saga." Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 34, no. 4 (August 2017): 289–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1455072517720100.

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Märta Tikkanen’s poetry collection Århundradets kärlekssaga ( The love story of the century, 1978) is a confessional book on life in a family where the husband and father is an alcohol abuser. It is also a love story about a married couple who love one another despite the terrible challenges posed to the relationship by alcoholism. The poetry collection became one of the most influential books in contemporary Nordic fiction, its themes on gender roles and alcohol abuse setting the trend in the Nordic discussion of women’s liberation. Märta Tikkanen’s courage to tell her own private story inspired other women to confess their gender equality problems to the public. The alcohol abuse of Märta Tikkanen’s husband Henrik Tikkanen was seen as an allegory for the more general problems in the relation between men and women. My essay introduces Märta Tikkanen’s poetry collection and discusses how the poems develop the theme of gender and alcohol. I will also compare her description of their marriage with Henrik Tikkanen’s self-portrait in his autobiographical novella Mariegatan 26, Kronohagen (1977). The analysis refers to contemporary research on gender and alcohol abuse and discusses how the poems contribute to a public recognition of the relationship between gender and alcohol abuse. The essay discusses the reception of Märta Tikkanen’s influential poems and explores her treatment of alcohol and gender in relation to other Nordic confessional or fictional books on alcohol abuse.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Alcoholism, fiction"

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Kiczula, Thomas J. Jr. "Nothing Remains Still." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1594.

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Ryan, Mike. ""no hope, just / booze and madness"| Connecting Social Alienation and Alcoholism in Charles Bukowski's Autobiographical Fiction." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1557574.

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The prevalence of alcoholic writers in 20^th-century American literature reached what has been called epidemic proportions. Many of these writers wrote autobiographical accounts of their alcoholism through alter egos in their literary works. Of these, perhaps none is as extensive and detailed as Charles Bukowski's persona Henry Chinaski. This thesis is a case study of Chinaski's alcoholism through five of Bukowski's autobiographical novels. In it, I explore the complexities of Chinaski's alcoholism and make the claim that social alienation is a driving force for the onset and the intensity of his alcohol addiction. The novels span Chinaski's life from youth to old age, and factors such as childhood abuse and labor conditions in the post-Depression era work to alienate him. Through close, contextual reading of Bukowski's novels aided with sociological and medical scholarship on addiction, the relationship between alienation and alcoholism is explored.

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Ash, Romy Alice. "Dead drunk /." Connect to thesis, 2008. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/4008.

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Larsson, Sara. "Good and Bad Mothering in the Fiction of Marian Keyes : A Discourse Analysis." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-89944.

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The object of this essay is to map the discourses of good versus bad mothering in four selected novels by Marian Keyes, and to analyze how they relate to hegemonic Western discourses of motherhood. The analytical approach is based on Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s discourse theory. In the essay I identify six central discursive structures in Keyes’ fictive representation of good and bad mothering. The explored structures deal with the proper social conditions for mothering, the mother’s unique role and function, mothering and professional pursuits, the rejection of children, depression and aggression in the mother, and mothering and substance abuse. They are described and contextualized with the aid of Laclau and Mouffe’s terminology and perspective on discursive struggle. The conclusion is that Keyes’ literary discourse connects good mothering with sustained maturing and individuality in the mother, while suggesting that bad mothering is related to relinquished integrity and personal potential.

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Grizenko, Marisa Katherine. "Two drunk ladies : the modernist drunk narrative and the female alcoholic in the fiction of Jean Rhys and Jane Bowles." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43579.

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This thesis takes as its starting point the culturally potent figure of the alcoholic modernist, who, heroically facing existential despair, is predominantly gendered as male. Pointing to the absence of the female alcoholic as writer and subject in critical accounts of modernism, I argue that a drunk narrative, written by and about women, exists alongside the prototypical male narrative, and call for a re-examination of the modernist writer‘s relationship to alcohol. Exploring the historical and cultural contexts that have contributed to the gendering of alcoholism and drinking practices in general, as well as the gendering of the modernist artist in particular, I then consider how writers Jean Rhys and Jane Bowles articulate their vision of the drinking woman. Rhys‘s 1939 novel Good Morning, Midnight sees protagonist Sasha Jansen employing the discursive category of female drunk as a tool of resistance in Paris‘ patriarchal and capitalist urban economy. I situate her as tactically capitalizing, in a de Certeauan fashion, on her abjection and visibility. Bowles‘s 1943 novel Two Serious Ladies extends Sasha‘s individual drunkenness to an overarching, abstracted drunkenness that reflects the worldview of the text. I trace how drunkenness functions thematically and linguistically in the two female protagonists‘ existential quests. While identifying existing gaps in the scholarship, I also hope to gesture to rich areas of potential research and model a reading practice that explores female interventions in the male modernist drunk narrative.

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Khan, Nadim. "Schulman och Glöm mig - mellan fiktion och autenticitet : En litteraturvetenskaplig läsning av alkoholismens roll i Glöm mig med fokus på självframställning, tematik och samband mellan fiktion och verklighet." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-72645.

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This essay has a focus on self description and alcoholism as a literary function in Alex Schulman’s Glöm mig. Similarities between the book Alcoholics Anonymous (Stora Boken) and the twelve step programme (Tolvstegsprogrammet) is based on how the narrative could be characterized by the authenticity of the disease portrayal. The connection between the narrative and Alcoholics Anonymous is compared with how the main characters are portrayed and how alcoholism functions in the book. The study reveals that the story could most likely be percieved as an accurate portrayal of alcoholism as a disease, due to certain cirumstances. The connection between the testimonies of alcoholism as a disease in Alcoholics Anonymous and the narrative is an important parallel as it can strengthen the story’s credibility. It’s possible to interpret the story as a testimony from someone in close relationship to an alcoholic. An authentic story like this occurs frequently in Swedish contemporary literature and could be one of the reasons behind the novel’s commercial breakthrough. The privileged position of the author should be considered as a contributing factor leading to the positive public reactions when the novel was published. It should also be considered as having an impact on the reader’s perception of the autobiographic novel’s credibility. It’s probable that, due to these circumstances, the line between a true story and a fictional one, could be dissolved for the reader. In connection with the circumstances with Schulman’s authorship, a number of factors that may impact the reading of the book, have been presented. These are explained in comparison to other authors with similar backgrounds, who have been publishing books about similiar topics.

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Campos, Simone Silva. "O jogo e os jogos: o jogo da leitura, o jogo de xadrez e a sanidade mental em A defesa Lujin, de Vladimir Nabokov." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2014. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=6936.

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No romance A defesa Lujin, de Vladimir Nabokov, publicado em russo em 1930, o texto procura levar o leitor a adotar processos mentais similares ao de um jogador de xadrez e de um esquizofrênico, características do personagem-título do romance. Delineiam-se as expectativas e circunstâncias de um ser de papel que se vê jogando um xadrez em que também é peça e traçam-se paralelos com as expectativas e circunstâncias do leitor perante esse texto literário. O prefácio de Nabokov à edição em inglês de 1964 é tomado como indício de um leitor e um autor implícitos que ele procura moldar. Para análise dos elementos textuais e níveis de abstração mental envolvidos, recorre-se à estética da recepção de Wolfgang Iser e a diversas ideias do psiquiatra e etnólogo Gregory Bateson, entre elas o conceito de duplo vínculo, com atenção às distinções entre mapa/território e play/game. Um duplo duplo vínculo é perpetrado na interação leitor-texto: 1) o leitor é convidado a sentir empatia pela situação do personagem Lujin e a considerá-lo lúcido e louco ao mesmo tempo; e 2) o leitor é colocado como uma instância pseudo-transcendental incapaz de comunicação com a instância inferior (Lujin), gerando uma angústia diretamente relacionável ao seu envolvimento com a ficção, replicando de certa forma a loucura de Lujin. A sinestesia do personagem Lujin é identificada como um dos elementos do texto capaz de recriar a experiência de jogar xadrez até para quem não aprecia o jogo. Analisa-se a conexão entre a esquizofrenia ficcional do personagem Lujin e a visão batesoniana do alcoolismo
In Vladimir Nabokovs novel, The Luzhin Defense, published in Russian in 1930, the text beckons the reader on to adopt mental processes similar to a chess players and a schizophrenic persons both traits of the novels title character. This character sees himself both as player and piece of an ongoing game of chess; his expectations and predicaments are traced in parallel to the readers own as he or she navigates the text. Nabokovs preface to the 1964 English edition is taken as an indication that he tries to shape both an implicit reader and an implicit author. In order to analyze the elements of the text and degrees of mental abstraction involved in this, we refer to Wolfgang Isers reader-response theory and also many of psychiatrist and ethnologist Gregory Batesons ideas, such as the double bind, with special regard to map vs. territory and play vs. game distinctions. A double double bind is built within the reader-text interplay as follows: 1) the reader is invited to feel empathy for Luzhins predicament and to regard him at once as sane and insane; and 2) the reader is posited as a pseudo-transcendental instance unable to communicate with his nether instance (Luzhin) in such a way that it brews a feeling of anxiety directly relatable to his or her engagement in the work of fiction, reproducing, in a way, Luzhins madness. Luzhins synesthesia is identified as one of the text elements with the ability to recreate the chess-playing experience even to readers who are not fond of the game. The connection between Luzhins fictional schizophrenia and Batesons views on alcoholism is analyzed

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Hardman, Kalyn M. "Collections of Disorder: Stories of Mental Illness." 2016. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_hontheses/11.

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This thesis contains five short stories, each narrated by a character with a psychological disorder. The disorders represented are as follows: alcohol use disorder, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, phobic disorder, and autism spectrum disorder. Research was conducted in two parts: (1) study of psychological texts including peer reviewed articles and case studies and (2) study of literary works including memoirs and novels. The author aims to use storytelling to humanize and therefore generate empathy for those with mental illnesses.

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Hazell, James Eric. "Saved by storytelling : Donald Harington's Farther Along as a recovery narrative." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-2831.

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Despite a devoted cult following and high praise from a handful of reviewers, Donald Harington has received scant attention in the academic literature. Harington (1935-2009) published 14 novels, most of them centered around the fictional Ozark hamlet of Stay More, Arkansas. Because he wrote mostly about a single town and because his novels contain a folkloric magical realism, he has often been compared to William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but his works defy easy classification. This report argues that Harington’s novel Farther Along is a recovery narrative structurally and thematically congruent with the recovery narratives told at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. The storyteller establishes his “qualifications” as an addictive drinker and depicts alcoholism as a symptom of underlying problems manifested not only in drinking but also in self-pity and resentment. The drinker reaches a crisis, or bottom, and begins to recover after going to meetings and hearing someone else’s autobiographical story that reveals truths about the nature of addiction. Continued attendance at meetings, during which one identifies with the stories of others, ends alcoholic isolation. Help from some type of higher power becomes crucial to achieving sobriety. And recovery includes service to others as a safeguard against the return of self-pity. However, in Farther Along it is not AA’s twelve-step program that leads the protagonist to sobriety. Instead, it is storytelling in itself – fiction – that functions as the “program” of recovery. More particularly, Harington, himself an alcoholic who remained sober for more than two decades, found an alternative to AA in his bizarre brand of magical realism. Thus, the novel is a testament to the healing power of stories.
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Ash, R. A. "Dead drunk." 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/4008.

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My concern in Dead Drunk is not simply the subject matter of death, it is rather with the representation of drunks in the form of fictional phantoms in The Glass Canoe and Bliss as rendering the death drive visible. Close scrutiny of the representation of the drunk in Australian fiction, as discussed in relation to The Glass Canoe, and Bliss reveals a ‘constant recurrence of the same thing’ rendered uncannily visible. On inspection, what becomes visible is recurring deaths and subsequent resurrections. For the ghostly Australian drunk there is always the possibility of resurrection, but that resurrection is usually in the form of another drink. A drink promises resurrection, but instead delivers a return or recurrence of the drunken, ghostly state.
The presence of drinking and drunks in Australian fiction can be described as a haunting, the ghostly drunks as repetition of an anachronistic past. It is the repetition of the representations of drunks as ghostly presences in Australian fiction that is telling. Utilising Sigmund Freud’s theories developed in ‘The Uncanny’ (1919) and Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), I propose that if the uncanny is an encounter with one’s origins and the death drive is a backward looking return to origins; the drunks are a past that is repeatedly encountered in an uncanny moment. Utilising the modalities of the uncanny in regards to The Glass Canoe reveals the guises of the drunken ghosts. Making reference to an Australian colonial past, founded on intoxicant use and abuse the dissertation suggests alcoholism as a white man’s dreaming. A discussion of Bliss links the uncanny ghosts to a registration or surfacing of the death drive. In conclusion I suggest the psychoanalytic concept of sublimation as both an explanation for and a release from the symptomatic repetition.
Floundering, the creative work, is an extract from a novel in progress. The section presented is the opening to the novel. The narrative unfolds during one day, New Year’s Eve, and involves the interactions between the two brothers Jordy and Tom, and Old Fat. Loretta, the boys’ absent mother, haunts the novel and drives the narrative. Although the creative work does not explicitly depict dead drunks as discussed in the dissertation, the theory has by necessity permeated the creative, and the creative permeated the theory, forming a chiasma – a crossing over between strands of thought.

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Books on the topic "Alcoholism, fiction"

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Figueroa, Rafael Olivera. El infierno del alcoholismo: (la virgen del silencio). México, D.F: Editorial Hermes, 1997.

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Jeffords, Nicole. Hearts of glass. Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1993.

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Jeffords, Nicole. Hearts of glass: A novel. New York: Crown Publishers, 1992.

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Ferry, Charles. Binge. Rochester, Mich: Daisy Hill Press, 1992.

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Hourihan, Paul. Bill W.: A strange salvation : a biographical novel based on key moments in the life of Bill Wilson, the Alcoholics Anonymous founder, and a probing of his mysterious 11-year depression. Redding, Calif: Vedantic Shores Press, 2003.

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Chumacero, David Saavedra. La última borrachera. [Perú]: Nueva Imagen Editores, 2007.

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Cullen, Ruth V. Sometimes you just have to tell somebody. New York: Paulist Press, 1992.

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ill, Yasui Meredith, ed. The apple. Seattle, Wash: Comprehensive Health Education Foundation, 1991.

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Higgins, Pamela Leib. Up and down the mountain: Helping children cope with parental alcoholism. Liberty Corner, N.J: Small Horizons, 1995.

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Due, Linnea A. High and outside. San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1988.

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Carota, Antonio, and Pasquale Calabrese. "Alcoholism between Fiction and Reality." In Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film, 169–77. Basel: S. KARGER AG, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000343259.

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Langkjær, Birger. "Social Realism of the 1940s: Between Paternalistic Care and Dignifying Humanism." In A History of Danish Cinema, 81–92. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474461122.003.0007.

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During the 1940s, social realism emerged in Danish cinema, making the trivialities of life into dramas of the everyday. The German occupation (1940-45) had boosted Denmark’s documentary output, with hundreds of state-commissioned short films informing the public about institutions and society. Directors, writers and cinematographers worked across documentary and fiction filmmaking, infusing the social realist feature films with aspects of documentary style such as on-location shooting, voice-over, rhythmic montage, and an interest in contemporary social issues. Another influence was the long-standing tradition of critical realism in Danish literature and theatre. These so-called problemfilm (‘problem films’) explored dilemmas such as abortion rights, child neglect, alcoholism, abusive relationships, and social welfare, positing power relations and social inequality as the culprits. Drawing on an amalgam of stylistic features and combining didacticism with sentimentality to engage audiences, these films espouse a critical-humanist social realism that heralded Denmark’s welfare state in spe.

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"4. Alcoholism as Pathology: The Reasoning and Allure of the Disease Perspective." In Fighting Firewater Fictions, 61–72. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/9781442674882-004.

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Paris, Václav. "Survival of the Unfittest on the Eastern Front." In The Evolutions of Modernist Epic, 101–36. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198868217.003.0004.

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In 1911, F. T. Marinetti imagined war as “the only hygiene of the world.” Such social Darwinist visions are contested by modernism’s antimilitarist fictions. Focusing on Jaroslav Hašek’s The Good Soldier Švejk (1921–23), this chapter explores the dynamics of this contestation and its ramifications for understanding modernist epic. The eponymous protagonist of Hašek’s fiction, Švejk, is not a standard hero. Rather, he is imbecilic, alcoholic, lazy, rheumatic, “degenerate,” mongrel-like, and speaks an “impure” colloquial version of the national language. His only positive feature is how, ironically because of his stupidity, Švejk always manages to escape a terrible destiny, delaying his arrival at the Eastern Front. As this chapter describes, the story is a moral of survival of the unfittest, dramatizing how the underdog can succeed in a violent world and how the Czechs emerged from under the Austrian empire. Analyzing this alter-Darwinian nation-building, the chapter places Hašek’s work into relation with the larger genre of modernist epic. It shows that although Hašek was not invested in any modernist movement, and did not read Joyce or Stein, his text was nevertheless shaped in relation to the same underlying historical forces. It reveals, consequently, an encompassing narrative of evolutionary thought that different national modernisms can be coordinated against, which also crosses the cultural divide between high and low.

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Marsh, John. "What You Want to Hear." In The Emotional Life of the Great Depression, 186–212. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198847731.003.0007.

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This chapter discusses hope, how it works, and what people in the 1930s hoped for. It begins with a late science fiction story (Isaac Asimov’s “Liar!”) that reveals how hope works or, at least, how those who do not think much of hope think hope works. It then returns to one particularly ambiguous archive of Great Depression hope: the largely unprecedented genre of self-help books and success manuals. Many of these books reflect the tempered hopes of the decade, nowhere more so than in the pages of Alcoholics Anonymous, published in 1939. The skepticism about hope is also reflected in the politics of the decade. Chastened by the blasted hopes of the Depression, the greatest contribution policymakers made during the 1930s was to develop safety net provisions—unemployment insurance, social security—founded on the belief not that everything would turn out well but could turn out badly.

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Sulimma, Maria. "The Looped Seriality of How to Get Away with Murder." In Gender and Seriality, 91–112. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474473958.003.0005.

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For its conceptualization of How to Get Away with Murder’s serial storytelling as looped seriality, the chapter highlights the show’s investment in temporal loops, as well as the loops between viewer responses and the show itself, recalling the “feedback loop” of seriality studies. The research of feminist audience studies, for example, on soap operas, feminized ‘guilty pleasures,’ fandom, or viewer communities, provides relevant starting points. Additionally, the chapter utilizes methodological conceptions of ‘Black Twitter,’ second screen viewing, and social television. Three areas emerge as especially relevant to explore how the interactivity of looped seriality surfaces in the show’s Twittersphere. First, the chapter relates the 'Who Dunnit'-hashtags to the conventions of detective fiction or murder mysteries. Second, the chapter interrogates internet humor and specifically memes and GIFs as another crucial site of looped audience engagements. In a third instance, looped seriality is applied to understand the show and the viewers' interactive reciprocity when it comes to the ritualized consumption of (alcoholic) beverages and snacks as a different kind of TV dinner.

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