Ecstasy and terror : from the Greeks to Game of thrones /
"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 cul...
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New York Review Books,
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Table of 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's 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.
