LITERATURE 93 - Intoxication in Literature:Romantic to Modern

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Claremont McKenna College

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Description:

Warner This course explores the ways that literary depictions of alcohol and drugs raise important questions about human consciousness, behavior, and perception, and examines changing attitudes toward intoxicant use and abuse, temperance, addiction, and intoxication's supposed links to creativity. Texts will generally include works by Thomas DeQuincey, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Stephen Crane, James Joyce, Eugene O'Neill, Malcolm Lowry, and the Beats, as well as supplementary readings in medical and social history. Offered occasionally.

Credits:

1.50

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.claremontmckenna.edu/

Phone Number:

(909) 621-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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