| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file rda |
| Contents |
Spectacles -- Classica -- Creative writing -- Private lives. |
| Summary |
In "Waiting for the Barbarians," Daniel Mendelsohn brings together twenty-four of his recent essays on a wide range of subjects, from "Avatar" to the poems of Arthur Rimbaud, from our inexhaustible fascination with the "Titanic" to Susan Sontag's "Journals." Also gathered here are essays devoted to the art of fiction, from Jonathan Littell's Holocaust blockbuster "The Kindly Ones" to forgotten gems like the novels of Theodor Fontane. In a final section, "Private Lives," prefaced by Mendelsohn's"New Yorker" essay on fake memoirs, he considers the lives and work of writers as disparate as Leo Lerman, Noel Coward, and Jonathan Franzen. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Subject |
Canon (Literature)
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Literature -- Appreciation.
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Popular culture -- 21st century.
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Canon (Literature) |
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Literature -- Appreciation. |
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Popular culture. |
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Electronic books. |
| Added Author |
Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781590176092 : $19.95 |
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159017609X : $19.95 |
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