Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam,  1960- <br/><br/>
Waiting for the barbarians :  essays on the classics and pop culture / 
by Daniel Mendelsohn. 
 - New York :  New York Review Books,  c2012. 
 - xiv, 423 p. ;  22 cm. 
 - The New York Review collection .
<br/><br/>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 (Man men) ; Unsinkable (why we can't let go of the Titanic) -- Classica. Battle lines (Stephen Mitchell's Iliad) ; In search of Sappho (Anne Carson's If not, winter) ; Arms and the man (the Landmark Herodotus) ; The strange music of Horace (J.D. McClatchy's Horace, the odes) ; Oscar Wilde, classics scholar ; Epic endeavors (three novels on the classics) -- Creative writing. After Waterloo (Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma) ; Heroine addict (the novels of Theodor Fontane) ; Rebel rebel (the poems of Arthur Rimbaud) ; The Spanish tragedy (Antonio MunÌoz Molina's Sepharad) ; In gay and crumbling England (Alan Hollinghurst's The stranger's child) ; Transgression (Jonathan Littell's The kindly ones) -- Private lives. But enough about me (the memoir craze) ; His design for living (NoeÌl Coward's Letters) ; On the town (Leo Lerman's diaries) ; Zoned out (Jonathan Franzen's The discomfort zone) ; Boys will be boys (Edmund White's City boy) ; The collector (Susan Sontag's Reborn). 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781590176078 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012012240 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Canon (Literature)<br/>Literature--Appreciation.<br/>Popular culture--21st century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN81  / .M514 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>801/.95