How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken

essays

By Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam

Publishers 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.

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ISBN
978-0-06145-643-5
Publisher
New York : Harper, c2008.


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Library Journal

Reviewed on August 15, 2008

One could easily argue that these essays by Mendelsohn (The Lost) are a critic's criticism. Trained as a classicist, with graduate work in Latin and Greek, he states that he is more interested in writing about popular-culture interpretations of classical texts than about the actual classics. His breadth is quite impressive; he tackles female characters in the work of Pe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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