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Understanding the changing experience of alcohol dependency through the study of literary masterpieces. From religious ecstasy to pleasurable release to isolated self-destruction in Euripides’ Bacchae, Zola’s L’Assommoir, Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, Yate’s Disturbing the Peace, Kennedy’s Ironweed, and other short stories and poems. (Offered Fall 2006.) |