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  • Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- author.
     
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    Ecstasy and terror : from the Greeks to Game of thrones / Daniel Mendelsohn.
    by Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- author.
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    New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
    Subjects
  • 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.
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    9781681374055 (paperback ; acid-free paper) :
    1681374056 (paperback ; acid-free paper) :
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    378 pages ; 22 cm
    Contents: 
    Ancients. Girl, Interrupted: 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.
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