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Whether he's on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit. Now How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken reveals all at once the enormous stature of Mendelsohn's achievement and demonstrates why he is considered one of our greatest critics. Writing with a lively intelligence and arresting originality, he brings his distinctive combination of scholarly rigor and conversational ease to bear across eras, cultures, and genres, from Roman games to video games. His interpretations of our most talked-about films--from the work of Pedro Almod var to Brokeback Mountain , from United 93 and World Trade Center to 300 , Marie Antoinette , and The Hours --have sparked debate and changed the way we watch movies. Just as stunning and influential are his dispatches on theater and literature, from The Producers to Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, from The Lovely Bones to the works of Harold Pinter. Together these thirty brilliant and engaging essays passionately articulate the themes that have made Daniel Mendelsohn a crucial voice in today's cultural conversation: the aesthetic and indeed political dangers of imposing contemporary attitudes on the great classics; the ruinous effect of sentimentality on the national consciousness in the post-9/11 world; the vital importance of the great literature of the past for a meaningful life in the present. How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken makes it clear that no other contemporary thinker is as engaged with as many aspects of our culture and its influences as Mendelsohn is, and no one practices the vanishing art of popular criticism with more acuity, humor, and feeling.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061456438
ISBN-13
9780061456435
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63382584

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Book Title
How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken : Essays
Author
Daniel Mendelsohn
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Theater / History & Criticism, Film / Guides & Reviews, Books & Reading, Essays
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
480 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
26.3 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pn1995.M432 2008
Reviews
"An elegant collection of essays. . . . Mendelsohn reveals intellectual breadth in his ability to draw on his training as a classicist to look at contemporary culture. . . . These essays richly repay the time readers spend in their company." (Publishers Weekly (starred review)), An elegant collection of essays. . . . Mendelsohn reveals intellectual breadth in his ability to draw on his training as a classicist to look at contemporary culture. . . . These essays richly repay the time readers spend in their company., "An elegant collection of essays. . . . Mendelsohn reveals intellectual breadth in his ability to draw on his training as a classicist to look at contemporary culture. . . . These essays richly repay the time readers spend in their company." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Brilliant. . . . Masterful. . . . Wise, funny. . . . A wonderful collection." -- Time Out New York "Mendelsohn takes on contemporary culture with humor and incisive analysis." -- The New York Sun
Copyright Date
2008
Lccn
2007-048282
Dewey Decimal
801/.95
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22

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