SOURCE: "Ironweed, Alcohol, and Celtic Heroism," in Critique, 33, 2, Winter, 1992, pp. 107-20.
In the following essay, Taylor locates the importance of alcohol as part of the mythic structure of William Kennedy's novel Ironweed.
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