E for Ecstasy
Author : Nicholas Saunders
Publisher :
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Ecstasy (Drug)
ISBN : 9780950162881
Author : Nicholas Saunders
Publisher :
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Ecstasy (Drug)
ISBN : 9780950162881
Author : Daniel Mendelsohn
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1681374099
“The role of the critic,” Daniel Mendelsohn writes, “is to mediate intelligently and stylishly between a work and its audience; to educate and edify in an engaging and, preferably, entertaining way.” His latest collection exemplifies the range, depth, and erudition that have made him “required reading for anyone interested in dissecting culture” (The Daily Beast). In Ecstasy and Terror, Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his insights through his training as a scholar of classical antiquity in illuminating and sometimes surprising ways. Many of these essays look with fresh eyes at our culture’s Greek and Roman models: some find an arresting modernity in canonical works (Bacchae, the Aeneid), while others detect a “Greek DNA” in our responses to national traumas such as the Boston Marathon bombings and the assassination of JFK. There are pieces on contemporary literature, from the “aesthetics of victimhood” in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life to the uncomfortable mixture of art and autobiography in novels by Henry Roth, Ingmar Bergman, and Karl Ove Knausgård. Mendelsohn considers pop culture, too, in essays on the feminism of Game of Thrones and on recent films about artificial intelligence—a subject, he reminds us, that was already of interest to Homer. This collection also brings together for the first time a number of the award-winning memoirist’s personal essays, including his “critic’s manifesto” and a touching reminiscence of his boyhood correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault, who inspired him to study the Classics.
Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393315813
A bestsellig romance author suffers a paralyzing stroke and her philandering husband wonders how this will affect his gambling and whoring budget; two young lovers must come to terms with their chemically induced deformity; Lloyd from Leith transfigures his passion for an unhappily married woman. These three tales confirm Irvine Welsh's position as a master of the "chemical" romance genre.
Author : Kate McCaffrey
Publisher : Fremantle Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1921696362
Mia and Sophie have been best friends forever — but that's all about to change. Experimenting with alcohol, flirting with boys, and dabbling in drugs, their lives quickly spiral out of control. There is little currently available for young readers — and their parents — that accurately reflects both the appeal and the consequences of drug use from a teenage perspective, making this an important and valuable novel.
Author : Jean Baudrillard
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Human beings
ISBN :
Author : Simon Reynolds
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 1136783164
In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. A celebration of rave's quest for the perfect beat definitive chronicle of rave culture and electronic dance music.
Author : Ron Hansen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061978280
The highly acclaimed and provocatively rendered story of a young postulant's claim to divine possession and religious ecstasy.
Author : Nicholas Saunders
Publisher : Ed Rosenthal
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Central nervous system
ISBN : 9780932551207
An international bestseller with over 100,000 copies in print - one of the first sources of information about the drug and its correspondent dance culture.
Author : Julie Holland
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 2001-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780892818570
Written by the world's leading experts on MDMA, "Ecstasy: The Complete Guide" takes the first unbiased look at the risks and the benefits of this unique drug, including the science of how it works; its promise as a treatment for depression, post-traumatic stress disorders, and other mental illnesses; and how to minimize the risks of use.
Author : Push
Publisher :
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Ecstasy (Drug)
ISBN :