Waiting for the barbarians : essays on the classics and pop culture / by Daniel Mendelsohn.
Waiting for the barbarians : essays on the classics and pop culture / by Daniel Mendelsohn.
Waiting for the barbarians : essays on the classics and pop culture / by Daniel Mendelsohn.
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New York : New York Review Books, c2012.
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G 2013/1020
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English
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xiv, 423 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Spectacles. The wizard (James Cameron's Avatar) ; Truth force at the Met (Philip Glass's Satyagraha) ; Why she fell (Julie Taymor's Spider-man) ; The dream director (Aleksandr Sokurov's The sun) ; The mad men account (Mad men) ; Unsinkable (why we can't let go of the Titanic) -- Classica. Battle lin...
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New York : New York Review Books, c2012.
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New York (State)
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c2012.
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Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn's reviews for "The New York Review of Books," "The New Yorker," and "The New York Times Book Review" have earned him a reputation as "one of the greatest critics of our time" ("Poets& Writers"). In "Waiting for the Barbarians," he brings together twenty-four of his recent essays--each one glinting...
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Waiting for the barbarians : essays on the classics and pop culture / by Daniel Mendelsohn.
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The New York review collection.
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c2012.
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G 2013/1020
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1590176073 (alk. paper)
9781590176078 (alk. paper)
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801.95
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991017261969702626
