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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken : essays

Title
How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken : essays / Daniel Mendelsohn.
Author
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-
Publication
New York : Harper, ©2008.

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Description
xix, 456 pages; 24 cm
Summary
A collection of essays that mostly appeared in the New York Review of Books in which the classicist/critic looks at contemporary culture through its movies, books and theater.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
  • Reviews.
Contents
Introduction. How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken -- Part one. Heroines. Novel of the year (The lovely bones) -- Not afraid of Virginia Woolf (The hours) -- Victims on Broadway I (The glass menagerie) -- Victims on Broadway II (A streetcar named Desire) -- The women of Pedro Almodóvar (Volver) -- Lost in Versailles (Marie Antoinette) -- Looking for Lucia (Lucia at the Met) -- Not an ideal husband (Ted Hughes's Alcestis) -- Part two. Heroics. A little Iliad (Troy) -- Alexander, the movie! -- Duty (300) -- It's only a movie (Kill Bill, vol. 1) -- Nailed! Dale Peck's Hatchet jobs) -- The way out (Everyman) -- Mighty Hermaphrodite (Middlesex) -- Part three. Closets. The passion of Henry James (The Master) -- The two Oscar Wildes (The Importance of being earnest) -- The tale of two Housmans (The Invention of love) -- The Truman Show (The stories and letters of Truman Capote) -- Winged messages (Angels in America) -- An affair to remember (Brokeback Mountain) -- The man behind the curtain (John Boswell, Same-sex unions in premodern Europe) -- Part four. Theater. The Greek way (Greek tragedies in New York) -- Bitter-sweet (Private lives) -- Double take (The producers) -- Harold Pinter's celebration (Pinter retrospective at Lincoln Center) -- Part five. War. Theaters of war (Thucydides' History) -- The bad boy of Athens (Medea on Broadway) -- For the birds (Nathan Lane's Frogs) -- September 11 at the movies (World Trade Center and United 93).
Call Number
JFE 09-3544
ISBN
  • 9780061456435
  • 0061456438
LCCN
2007048282
OCLC
182621503
Author
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-
Title
How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken : essays / Daniel Mendelsohn.
Imprint
New York : Harper, ©2008.
Edition
1st ed.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
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Chronological Term
1900 - 2099
Research Call Number
JFE 09-3544
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