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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
- Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-
- Motion pictures
- Critics
- Theater
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- 1900 - 2099
- Motion pictures > Reviews
- Critics > United States
- Theater > Reviews
- United States
- Books > Reviews
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- > Criticism and interpretation > History > 21st century
- History
- Reviews
- Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- > Criticism and interpretation > History > 20th century
- 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
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900 - 2099
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-3544