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作       者:Mendelsohn, Daniel

出  版  社:HarperCollins e-books

出版时间:2009-10-01

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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 Almodóvar 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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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Part One

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

A Little Iliad (Troy)

Alexander, the Movie! (Alexander)

Duty (300)

It’s Only a Movie (Kill Bill: Volume 1)

Nailed! (Dale Peck’s Hatchet Jobs)

The Way Out (Everyman)

Mighty Hermaphrodite (Middlesex)

Part Three

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

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

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)

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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