Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture Book

Contents

FOREWORD....................ix
The Wizard (James Cameron's Avatar)....................3
Truth Force at the Met (Philip Glass's Satyagraha)....................19
Why She Fell (Julie Taymor's Spider-Man)....................37
The Dream Director (Aleksandr Sokurov's The Sun)....................51
The Mad Men Account (Mad Men)....................65
Unsinkable (Why We Can't Let Go of the Titanic)....................81
Battle Lines (Stephen Mitchell's Iliad)....................103
In Search of Sappho (Anne Carson's If Not, Winter)....................121
Arms and the Man (The Landmark Herodotus)....................139
The Strange Music of Horace (J. D. McClatchy's Horace, The Odes)....................159
Oscar Wilde, Classics Scholar....................179
Epic Endeavors (Three Novels on the Classics)....................195
After Waterloo (Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma)....................213
Heroine Addict (The Novels of Theodor Fontane)....................223
Rebel Rebel (The Poems of Arthur Rimhaud)....................241
The Spanish Tragedy (Antonio Muñoz Molina's Sepharad)....................259
In Gay and Crumbling England (Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child)....................275
Transgression (Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones)....................291
But Enough About Me (The Memoir Craze)....................311
His Design for Living (Noël Coward's Letters)....................333
On the Town (Leo Lerman's Diaries)....................349
Zoned Out (Jonathan Franzen's The Discomfort Zone)....................365
Boys Will Be Boys (Edmund White's City Boy)....................381
The Collector (Susan Sontag's Reborn)....................399