Bibliograph

Ecstasy and terror, from the Greeks to Game of Thrones, by Daniel Mendelsohn

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Ecstasy and terror, from the Greeks to Game of Thrones, by Daniel Mendelsohn

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ecstasy and terror

Oclc number

1082442927

Responsibility statement

by Daniel Mendelsohn

Sub title

from the Greeks to Game of Thrones

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

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