Ecstasy and terror : from the Greeks to Game of thrones
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Published
New York : New York Review Books, [2019].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
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Published
New York : New York Review Books, [2019].
Language
English
UPC
40029556659
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
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"In Ecstasy and Terror, Mendelsohn once again casts an eye at literature, film, television, and the personal essay, filtering his insights through his training as a scholar of classical antiquity in illuminating and sometimes surprising ways. Many of these essays look with fresh eyes at our culture's Greek and Roman models: some find an arresting modernity in canonical works (Bacchae, the Aeneid), while others detect a "Greek DNA" in our responses to national traumas such as the Boston Marathon bombings and the assassination of JFK. There are pieces on contemporary literature, from the "aesthetics of victimhood" in Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life to the uncomfortable mixture of art and autobiography in novels by Henry Roth, Ingmar Bergman, and Karl Ove Knausgard. Mendelsohn considers pop culture, too, in essays on the feminism of Game of Thrones and on recent films about artificial intelligence--a subject, he reminds us, that was already of interest to Homer. This collection also brings together for the first time a number of the award-winning memoirist's personal essays, including his "critic's manifesto" and a touching reminiscence of his boyhood correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault, who inspired him to study the Classics."--,Provided by publisher.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Biographies.
Civilization, Ancient, in popular culture.
Civilization, Classical -- Influence.
Civilization, Western -- Classical influences.
Classical literature -- Influence.
Critics -- United States -- Biography.
Film critics -- United States -- Biography.
Literature, Modern -- Classical influences.
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, -- 1960-
Civilization, Ancient, in popular culture.
Civilization, Classical -- Influence.
Civilization, Western -- Classical influences.
Classical literature -- Influence.
Critics -- United States -- Biography.
Film critics -- United States -- Biography.
Literature, Modern -- Classical influences.
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, -- 1960-