Drunk the night before : an anatomy of intoxication / Marty Roth.

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2005], ©2005.

xxii, 228 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-215) and index.

The mysteries of intoxication -- Drink poetry; or, The art of feeling very, very good -- Double Dionysus: ambiguities in the discourse of intoxication -- Socrates undrunk: literature writing philosophy in Plato's Symposium -- "Out, loathed med'cine! O hated potion, hence!": the magic of literary drinks -- Spiritual intoxication and the metaphorics of heaven -- Drinking in style: a Horatian aesthetic -- Carnival, creativity, and the sublimation of drunkenness.