CEEL 0940 - Fiction & Addiction: An Introduction to Literary Analysis

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Brown University

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From the nineteenth-century work of Charles Baudelaire’s The Painter of Modern Life to the contemporary post-Trainspotting world, literature has always endured a fascination with the effects of drug and alcohol use on individuals and within specific cultures. This course examines the relationship between fiction and various states of “addiction” and “intoxication,” especially the ways literature re-defines what we understand these words to mean. Using a range of texts from philosophical essays written during the nineteenth century, to canonical novels of British modernism, to postmodern science fiction, we will study how writers have dealt with the problems posed by these conditions. Paying particular attention to the varieties of “addictive” and “intoxicating” experiences, we will also ask how, why, and to what end historical events and cultural contexts change the nature of these categories that so many texts imagine.

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www.brown.edu

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(401) 863-1000

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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