Avital Ronell: Crack Wars, Literature Addiction Mania (University of Illinois Press, 2004)

Avital Ronell asks why "there is no culture without drug culture." She deals with the usual drugs and alcohol (and their celebrities: Freud's cocaine, Baudelaire's hashish, the Victorians' laudanum), and moves beyond them to addictions that are culturally accepted--an insatiable appetite for romance novels, for instance, and romance itself.

Ronell is a professor of German at New York University. She is author of Dictations: On Haunted Writing, The Telephone Book, Finitude's Score, and Stupidity. Her essays have appeared in Diacritics, Differences, Genre, Modern Language Notes, Stanford Italian Review, Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, Substance, and many other journals.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Illinois Press (February 24, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 175 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0252071905
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0252071904
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.16 x 6 x 0.41 inches