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Ecstasy and terror : from the Greeks to Game of thrones
Title
Ecstasy and terror : from the Greeks to Game of thrones / Daniel Mendelsohn.
ISBN
9781681374055
1681374056
9781681374093
Publication
New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
Physical Description
378 pages ; 22 cm
Other formats
Online version: Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- author. Ecstasy and terror. New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 14, 2020
Bibliography
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.
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