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Writing Addiction: Towards a Poetics of Desire and Its Others

Writing Addiction: Towards a Poetics of Desire and Its Others Paperback - 2004

by Szabados, Bela & Kenneth G. Probert (editors)

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Regina, Saskatchewan: Canadian Plains Research Center, 2004. 168 pages. Solid with light wear on the covers and the interior is unmarked. "The history of literature is replete with substance-dependent writers. ... Could the members of the Club des Haschichins (circa 1845), De Quincey, Jean Cocteau, Bachelard, and others be right- that potentially addictive substances stimulate the artistic imagination? What is the relationship between the desire for intoxication or euphoria and the compulsions of addiction? Is there a sense in which writing provides similar highs and compulsions? Are writing and substance addiction similar transgressive behaviors? Could it be that both writing and addiction are ways of losing control, or perhaps of losing controls?". 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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  • Title Writing Addiction: Towards a Poetics of Desire and Its Others
  • Author Szabados, Bela & Kenneth G. Probert (editors)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good +
  • Pages 168
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Canadian Plains Research Center, Regina, Saskatchewan
  • Date 2004
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 30348
  • ISBN 9780889771765 / 0889771766
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004426847
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.933

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