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Author:
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- author.
Title:
Ecstasy and terror : from the Greeks to Game of thrones / Daniel Mendelsohn.
Publisher:
New York Review Books,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
378 pages ; 22 cm
Subject:
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam,--1960-
Literature, Modern--Classical influences.
Civilization, Western--Classical influences.
Classical literature--Influence.
Civilization, Classical--Influence.
Civilization, Ancient, in popular culture.
Critics--United States--Biography.
Film critics--United States--Biography.
Other Authors:
Levin, Anna, 1961-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Ancients. Girl, Interrupted: How Gay Was Sappho? -- How gay was Sappho? -- Deep Frieze: What Does the Parthenon Mean? -- Ecstasy and Terror: The Modernity of Euripides' Bacchae -- Unburied: Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the Lessons of Antigone -- JFK, Tragedy, Myth: Classical Paradigms and National Trauma -- Epic Fail?: Reading the Aeneid in the Twenty-First Century -- As Good as Great Poetry Gets: Cavafy Between Poetry and History -- Moderns. The Last Minstrel: Henry Roth's Tormented Life and Work -- Brideshead, Revisited: Getting Waugh Wrong -- Hail, Augustus!: History and Character in John Williams' Fiction -- Weaving New Patterns: The autobiographical novels of Ingmar Bergman -- The End of the Road: Patrick Leigh Fermor's Final Journey -- The Women and the Thrones: George R. R. Martin's Feminist Epic on TV -- The Robots are Winning!: Homer, Ex Machina, and Her -- A Whole Lotta Pain: Hanya Yanagihara and the Aesthetics of Victimhood -- I, Knausgaard: Fact, Fiction, and the Fuhrer -- Personals. The American Boy: An author, a young reader and a life-changing correspondence -- Stopping in Vilna: Stendhal Meets the Holocaust in Eastern Europe -- The Countess and the Schoolboy: Coming of Age in Charlottesville -- A Critic's Manifesto.
ISBN:
1681374056
9781681374055
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1082442927
LCCN:
2019012373
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)
FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

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