How Beautiful it is and how Easily it can be broken - Essays

Zusatztext "Mendelsohn takes on contemporary culture with humor and incisive analysis." Informationen zum Autor Daniel Mendelsohn a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker , is the author of the international bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million . He teaches at Bard College. Klappentext 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 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. Zusammenfassung 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 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.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Mendelsohn, Mendelsohn Daniel
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.08.2009
• EAN: 9780061456442
• ISBN: 978-0-06-145644-2
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 204 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PERFORMING ARTS: Film & Video / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS: Film & Video / General, PERFORMING ARTS: Film & Video / Reference, LITERARY CRITICISM: American / General, COMPOSITION & WRITING: LITERARY CRITICISM, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM: Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM: General, ART: American / General, DESIGN: Book