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Ecstasy and terror : from the Greeks to Game of thrones / Daniel Mendelsohn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Modern--Classical influences.
- Literature, Modern.
- Civilization, Western--Classical influences.
- Civilization, Western.
- Classical literature--Influence.
- Classical literature.
- Civilization, Classical--Influence.
- Civilization, Classical.
- Civilization, Ancient, in popular culture.
- Mendelsohn, Daniel.
- Critics--United States--Biography.
- Critics.
- Film critics.
- United States.
- Film critics--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 378 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- author. Ecstasy and terror.
- ISBN:
- 9781681374055
- 1681374056
- OCLC:
- 1082442927
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