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Psychedelic trips: Travel and drugs ...

Banco, Lindsey Michael.

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Psychedelic trips: Travel and drugs in contemporary literature.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Psychedelic trips: Travel and drugs in contemporary literature./
作者:	Banco, Lindsey Michael.
面頁冊數:	263 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-03, Section: A, page: 0970.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-03A.
標題:	Literature, American. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR37062
ISBN:	9780494370629

Psychedelic trips: Travel and drugs in contemporary literature.
Banco, Lindsey Michael.

Psychedelic trips: Travel and drugs in contemporary literature. - 263 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-03, Section: A, page: 0970.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Queen's University (Canada), 2008.

This dissertation studies interlocking representations of travel and drugs in contemporary American, British, and Canadian novels, exploring how those thematics alternately destabilize and assuage subjectivity, genre, and the perception of space. Following a prefatory chapter, Chapters Two and Three serve as a two-part introduction. The first part articulates a theoretical lens I designate by enclosing the word "tripping," a colloquialism for a drug experience, in quotation marks. Through this lens, I examine travel and drugs in contemporary fiction indebted to sixties counterculture. In Chapter Three, I examine the work of William S. Burroughs and Aldous Huxley, contextualizing their mid-twentieth-century travel and drugs as foundational to later twentieth-century "tripping."

ISBN: 9780494370629Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

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520 $a Chapter Four treats Huxley's novel, Island, as a revision of the foundations I outline in the previous chapter; his instantiation and critique of utopia via "tripping" help conceptualize the psychedelic experience as protective spatial movement---physical mobility instead of psychedelic fungibility---in the service of preserving a stable sense of self. Chapter Five discusses Alex Garland's The Beach, in which drugs reveals the limitations of utopian thought by underscoring the paradoxical notion of immobility hidden within the supposed freedom of mobility. In these novels, Huxley and Garland depict travel as a key to the process of rendering psychedelic intoxication knowable in familiar terms.
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