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Dionysos: the literature and intoxication triquarterly
This site makes accessible all issues of Dionysos: The Literature and Intoxication Triquarterly. Individual issues are downloadable as searchable pdfs. File sizes are 1-2MB.

We would very much like to thank:

Roger Forseth and Jim Harbaugh for kindly granting permission to make these issues publicly available. (And we would like to point out that a collection of Roger's essays is now available: Alcoholite at the Altar: The Writer and Addiction link)

Shana Aue at the University of Wisconsin-Superior Library for providing earlier versions of pdfs for Issues 1-5, and to Laura Jacobs for helping facilitate this in the first place.

Please send queries to:

Pam Lock - Pam.Lock@bristol.ac.uk
Steven Earnshaw - s.l.earnshaw@shu.ac.uk

 

  Volume 1 No. 1 (Spring 1989)

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Editorial  
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Nicholas O. Warner The Drunken Wife in Defoe's Colonel Jack: An Early Description of Alcohol Addiction
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George F. Wedge Mixing Memory with Desire: The Family of the Alcoholic in Three Mid-Century Plays
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John W. Crowley A review of Scott Donaldson's John Cheever: A Biography
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Roger Forseth

'I Wouldn't Have Korsakov's Syndrome, Would I?' A review of Barnaby Conrad's Time Is All We Have: Four Weeks at the Betty Ford Center

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Constance M. Perry Alcoholics as American Celebrities. A Review of Donald Goodwin's Alcohol and the Writer
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  Brief reviews
28
  Notes and comments
30
  About the contributors
32

 

  Volume 1 No. 2 (Fall 1989)

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Editorial  
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Roger Forseth Denial as Tragedy: The Dynamics of Addiction in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey into Night
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Thomas B. Gilmore The Critic Criticized: Herbert Fingarette's Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease (review article)
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Hamilton Cochrane Making Use: The Last Poems of Raymond Carver. A review of Raymond Carver's A New Path to the Waterfall
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E. Nelson Hayes

Hallucinations. A review of Ronald K. Siegel's Intoxiccation: Life in Pursuit of Artificial Paradise

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Constance M. Perry The Great American "Rummies": Our Century's Writers and Alcoholism. A review of Tom Dardis's The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer
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  Brief reviews
41
  Bibliographical Notes
44
  Notes and comment
46
  About the contributors to Dionysos
48

 

  Volume 1 No. 3 (Winter 1990)

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Editorial  
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Anya Taylor A Thrice-Told Tale: Fiction and Alcoholism in Richard Yates's Disturbing the Peace
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Timothy M. Rivinus and Brian W. Ford Children of Alcoholics in Literature: Portraits of the Struggle (Part One)
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Hayden Carruth The Incorrigible Dirigible
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Jet Wimp

A review of Judith McDaniels' Metamorphosis

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Donald C. Irving A Taboo Lifted. A review of Thomas B. Gilmore's Equivocal Spirits
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Thomas B. Gilmore A review of Adult Children of Alcoholics Remember, E. Nelson Hayes, editor
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John J. Halligan A review of The Invisible Enemy, Miriam Dow and Jennifer Regan, editors
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  Brief Reviews
47
  Notes and Comment
49
  About the contributors to Dionysos
51

 

  Volume 2 No. 1 (Spring 1990)

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Editorial  
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Paul H. Schmidt Alcohol, Literature, and Social Patterns (Review Article)
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Timothy M. Rivinus and Brian W. Ford Children of Alcoholics in Literature: Portraits of the Struggle (Part Two)
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Jennifer Manning Torn Between Knowledge and Desire: Alcoholism in John Berryman's "Dream Song #96"
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Amy L. Mashberg

Co-Dependence and Obsession in Madame Bovary

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William P. Wyatt, Jr The Living Room (Poem)
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  Brief Reviews
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  Notes and Comment
45
  About the contributors to Dionysos
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  Volume 2 No. 2 (Fall 1990)

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Marty Roth "The Milk of Wonder": Fitzgerald, Alcoholism, and The Great Gatsby
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Annette Federico "I must have drink": Addiction, Angst, and Victorian Realism
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Denise Low A Healing Rain in James Welch's Winter in the Blood
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Nicholas O. Warner

A film review of The Roaring Twenties (1939, Warner Brothers)

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  Brief Reviews
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  Notes and Comment
41
  About the contributors to Dionysos
44

 

 

  Volume 2 No. 3 (Winter 1991)

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Editorial  
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Jack Williams "Marla" Fiction
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G. Alan Marlatt and Roger Forseth Theatrical Defenses: A Conversation
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Steven Bloom Alcoholism and Intoxication in A Touch of the Post
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Virginia Ross

Descent Into Despair. A review of William Styron's Darkness Visible(1939, Warner Brothers)

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  Brief Review
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  Notes and Comment
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  About the contributors to Dionysos
48

 

 

Volume 3 No. 1 (Spring 1991)

Special Review Issue

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John W. Crowley Drunk Descending a Staircase: John Barleycorn
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Roger Forseth "Why did they make such a fuss?": Don Birnam's Emotional Barometer
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Dan Wakefield Benchley's Sobering Revelations
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Thomas B. Gilmore

A Happy Hybrid

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George Wedge An Unlicensed PI in AA: The Matt Scudder Novels
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Donald. C. Irving Secrets of the Streets
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  Brief Reviews
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Sue Vice Literature and Addiction: An Interdisciplinary Conference
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  Notes and Comment
45
  About the contributors to Dionysos
47
  Contents of the Past Issues
48

 

 

Volume 3 No. 2 (Fall 1991)

 

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Catherine MacGregor "Especially Pictures of Families": Alcoholism, Codependency, and Crime and Punishment
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Hamilton Cochrane Happy New Year (Fiction)
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Judson Jerome "Alcoholic" (Poem)
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Nicholas O. Warner

Drink, Symbolism, and Social History. A review of Drinking: Behavior and Belief in Modern History, Susanna Barrows and Robin Room, editors

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Virginia Ross The Posthumous Confession of Anne Sexton. A review of Diane Wood Middlebrook's Anne Sexton: A Biography
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Donald. C. Irving A review of jeffrey Meyers' Manic Power: Robert Lowell and His Circle
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  Notes and Comment
42
  About the contributors to Dionysos
44

 

 

Volume 3 No. 3 (Winter 1992)

 

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Marty Roth The Unquenchable Thirst of Edgar Allan Poe
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George Wedge I Could Draw You a Picture (Fiction)
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Christine Ramsay Apocalyptic Visions, Alcoholic Hallucinations, and Modernism: The (Gendered) Signs of Drinking and Death in Under the Volcano
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John W. Crowley

Jays and Jags: Gender, Class, and Addiction in Howells' Landlord at Lion's Head

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  Notes and Comment
42
  About the contributors to Dionysos
44

 

 

Volume 4 No. 1 (Spring 1992)

 

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John Maxwell O'Brien Dionysus
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John Peck Thackeray and Drink: Vanity Fair and The Newcomes
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Thomas B. Gilmore Missed Opportunities (Review Article)
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Frank Morral

D. H. Lawrence's Alcoholic Family (Review Article)

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Mark Rodell Both Sides of the Tracks. A review of Linda Niemann's Boomer
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Nicholas O. Warner A review of Norman K. Denzin's Hollywood Shot by Shot: Alcoholism in American Cinema
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Amy Mashberg Family Regulator -- Family Symptom. A review of Paula Marantz Cohen's The Daughter's Dilemma: Family Process and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel
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  Correspondence
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  Notes and Comment
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  About the contributors to Dionysos
50
  Contents of the Past Issues
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Volume 4 No. 2 (Fall 1992)

 

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Constance M. Perry A Woman Writing Under the Influence: Djuna Barnes and Nightwood
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Timothy M. Rivinus Euphoria and Despair: Youthful Addiction in This Side of Paradise and Novel with Cocaine
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Jack Williams Uncle Carl, Not Clogging (Poem)
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Catherine MacGregor

"I Cannot Trust Your Oaths and Promises: I Must Have a Written Agreement": Talk and Text in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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Roger Forseth Symposia as Ritual and Disease (Review Article)
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  Brief Reviews
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  Notes and Comment
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  About the contributors to Dionysos
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Volume 4 No. 3 (Winter 1993)

Special Issue: The Beat Generation 1: The European Perspective

Issue Editor: Sue Vice

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Introductory Note  
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Sue Wiseman The Artist and the Boy Gang: Beat Boys and Girls
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Steven Whitaker Burroughs and De Quincey: Two Tasters of "The Divine Luxuries"
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James Oliver Deterritorialized Desiring-Production and Deferral ofthe Voice: The Addictive Dynamic of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Poetry
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Steven Perrin

Hero and Heroin: Opiate Use and Sexual Identity

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Tom Roder William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg: Making it More "Real," "Reality Effects," Doubts, and Postmodernist Concerns
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Sue Vice Hallucinatory Reality in David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch
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  About the contributors to Dionysos
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Volume 5 No. 1 (Spring 1993)

 

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Donald W. Goodwin

Alcohol as Muse
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Jack Williams

Marla II (Fiction)
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George Wedge

Matt Scudder: fighting the Good Fight Against Crime and Booze (Review Article)
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Virginia Ross

Jean Stafford's Beleaguered Fortress: A Review of Ann Hulbert's The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford

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Jack Herzig

The Samurai (Poem)
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Marty Roth

Theory Skirmishes. A review of Avital Ronell's Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania and Anya Taylor's "Coleridge and Alcohol"
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Donald C. Irving

Middle-Aged Spiritual Disease. A review of David Gates's Jernigan
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Constance M. Perry

Literature Looks at the Politics of Food and Drink. A review of the Summer/Fall 1991 issue of Mosaic
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Notes and Comment
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About the contributors to Dionysos
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Contents of the Past Issues (Vols. I-IV)
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Volume 5 No. 2 (Fall 1993)

 

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John W. Crowley

Recovering the Author of The Lost Weekend: Notes on charles Jackson
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Robin N. Crouch

Samuel Johnson on Drinking
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Ellen Lansky

Two Unfinished Beers: A Note on Drinking in Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants"
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Peter Donahue

The Pearl of Puget Sound (Story)

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Marty and Martha Roth

Short Cuts. A film review.

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Constance M. Perry

My Madness: The Selected Writings of Anna Kavan. Review
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Notes and Comment
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About the contributors to Dionysos
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Volume 5 No. 3 (Winter 1994)

 

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Symposium
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Roger Forseth

Alcohol, Disease, and the Limitations of Artistic Representation
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David Isaacson

Making Sense Out of Soused Synonyms
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Ellen Lansky

Spirits and Salvation in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine

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Marty Roth

Addiction with a Difference. A review of differences, "On Addiction"
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Notes and Comment
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About the contributors to Dionysos
51

 

Volume 6 No. 1 (Winter 1996)

 

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Cassie Carter

The Sickness That Takes Years to Perfect: Jim Carroll's Alchemical Vision
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Mark Scott

Original Poetry
20

Roger Forseth

Review Article: The Alcoholic Writer and the Modern Temper: Transcendence Downward

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David Roskos

Original Poetry
33

Rosemary E. Johnsen

Book Review Beyond the Pleasure Dome: Writing and Addiction from the Romantics
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Jim Harbaugh, S J

Book Review Expect a Miracle: The Miraculous Things That Happen to Ordinary People
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Roger Forseth

Notes and Comment
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About the contributors to Dionysos
43

 

Volume 6 No. 2 (Summer 1996)

 

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Andrew S. McClure

Word, Image, and Addiction: Language and the Junk Equation in William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch
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Patrick E. Collins

Original Poetry
20

Jim Harbaugh, S J

Review of Creating from the Spirit by Dan Wakefield

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Joe B. Fulton

Carnival in Barbara Pym's Excellent Women
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Roger Forseth

Notes and Comment
38

About the contributors
41

 

Volume 7 No. 1 (Winter 1997)

 

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Letters to the Editor
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Mary Corey

Irresolute Spirits
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Sam Friedman

Original Poetry
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Marty Roth

Something Wild: The Fruits of Filmic Intoxication

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Jack Williams

Original Poetry
34

George Carmen

Original Poetry
35

Roger Forseth

Book Review of Norman Kiell, Food and Drink in Literature: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography
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John W. Crowley

Book Review of John Steadman Rice, A Disease of One's Own: Psychotherapy, Addiction, and the Emergence of Co-Dependency
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Roger Forseth

Notes and Comment
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About the contributors
46

 

Volume 7 No. 2 (Summer 1997)

 

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Ellen Lansky

Beloved Enemies: Two Serious Ladies. The Sheltering Sky. Jane and Paul Bowles, and Alcohol
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Michael L. Johnson

Drinks
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George Wedge

Literature and Addiction Across Eras and Cultures

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John Crowley

A Bleak Vindictive Wind: The Drunkenness of James Whitcomb Riley
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Eric Zuckerman

Original Poetry
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Jim Harbaugh, SJ

Book Review of Last Call: Poems on Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deliverance
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Roger Forseth

Notes and Comment
44

David Roskos

Original Poetry
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About the contributors
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Volume 8 No. 1 (Winter 1998)

 

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Kevin McCarron

The Disenchanted Circle: Slave Narratives and Junk Narratives
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John W. Crowley

William Inge's Lost Script for Television: Max and the National Council on Alcoholism
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George Wedge

Alcoholism as Symptom: The Life and Works of Jean Rhys

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Jerome Bump

Book Review of John V. Knapp: Striking at the Joints: Contemporary Psychology and Literary Criticism
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Roger Forseth

Book Review of Timothy E. Donohue: In the Open: Diary of a Homeless Alcoholic
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Marty Roth

Alcohol and the American Renaissance. Book Review of Nicholas O. Warner: Spirits of America: Intoxication in Nineteenth-century American Literature
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Roger Forseth

Notes and Comment
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About the contributors
51

 

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Volume 8 No. 2 (Summer 1998)

 

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Kathryne S. McDorman

Addiction and Respectability in the Novels of Ngaio Marsh
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Ivan Gold

The Mask of Amontillado
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Jon Miller

"Heavens Good Cheer": Puritan Drinking in the Meditations of Edward Taylor, 1682-1725

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Roger Forseth

Notes and Comment
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About the contributors
48

 

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Volume 9 No. 1 (Winter 1999)

 

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George Monteiro

Bowery Plot, Social Paradigm in Stephen Crane's George's Mother
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Matt Djos

John Berryman's "Phase Four" and His Precarious Attempt to Find a Compromise Between Drunkenness, Sobriety, and the A. A. Twelve Step Program
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George Wedge

The Inner Temple (poem)

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Kevin McCarron

Spiritus contra spiritum The Recovery Narrative and "Spirituality"

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Index of Past Issues, by contents and authors
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About the contributors
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Volume 9 No. 2 (Summer 1999)

 

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Roger Forseth

George Francis Wedge III 1927-1999
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George Wedge

If "May Day" Isnt About Alcohol, Why Is Nearly Everybody Drunk?
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Todd Richardson

Leading E. A. Poe through a Standard Test for Alcoholism

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Sam Friedman

De la convencion a nuestras casas

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Roger Forseth

Addiction Studies: A Review of the Literature
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Erik R. Mortenson

Xmas Junkies: Debasement and Redemption in the Work of William S. Burroughs and David Foster Wallace
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Marty Roth

Bacchus and Old King Alcohol: A Review of Anya Taylor, Bacchus and Romantic England: Writers ad Drink, 1780-1830 and John W. Crowley Drunkard's Progress: Narratives of Addiction, Despair and Recovery
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Roger Forseth

Notes and Comment
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About the Contributors
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Volume 10 No. 1 (Winter 2000)

 

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James Nicholls

Barflies and Bohemians: Drink, Paris and Modernity
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David Roskos

After Ginsberg
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Matts Djos

The Alcoholic Dilemmas of Marriage, Impotence, and Objectification in the Poetry of John Berryman and Robert Lowell

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David Roskos

Tumbling the Void: William Wantling and the Algebra of Need

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Roger Forseth

Notes and Comment
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About the Contributors
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Volume 10 No. 2 (Summer 2000)

 

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Kevin McCarron

"For to Beg for the Price of a Jar": Begging and Alcoholism in the Contemporary British Temperance Narrative
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David Leigh, S J

Addiction and Modern Spiritual Autobiography
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Marty Roth

Alcoholism and the Novel

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Jim Harbaugh

Review of A Babel of Bottles: Drink, Drinkers & Drinking Places in Literature

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Roger Forseth

Notes and Comment
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About the Contributors
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Volume 11 No. 1 (Spring 2001)

 

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Matts Djos

Addiction and Spirituality in Contemporary American Poetry: A Study in Frustration and Paradox
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George Wedge

Neo-Prohibitionism and the Drinking Writer
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David Roskos

Untitled Poem. On the Road to the Contagious Crack House

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Jim Harbaugh

Review of Bill W. and Mr. Wilson

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Jim Harbaugh

Literature (and Other Arts): What We Talk about When We Talk about Spirituality and Recovery

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Roger Forseth

Notes and Comment
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About the Contributors
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