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Helen of Troy

From Homer to Hollywood

Erschienen am 09.04.2009, 1. Auflage 2009
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ISBN/EAN: 9781405126342
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 280 S.
Einband: gebundenes Buch

Beschreibung

Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive examination of the ways in which Helen's story has been told and re-told from the ancient world to the present day. In this wide-ranging literary biography, Laurie Maguire analyzes ongoing debates about Helen's sexual culpability, as seen through the prism of society's evolving attitudes to issues such as beauty and rape. The aesthetic and narrative difficulties that ensue when literature translates myth are also considered, yet through it all, we see how Helen of Troy's contradictory legacy has transcended the ages and endured in literature. Works by Homer, Euripides, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and others are explored, as well as Helen's resurgent popularity in a surprising variety of modern novels, plays, and films. In an engaging and original new work filled with scholarly insights, Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood takes readers on an epic voyage into the literary representations of a woman who has wielded a great influence on Western cultural consciousness for more than three millennia.

Autorenportrait

Laurie Maguire is Professor of English at Oxford University and has authored or edited six previous books, including Studying Shakespeare and the popular Where There's a Will There's a Way. She has lectured widely at literary festivals in the U.S. and U.K.

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Inhalt

List of Illustrations Preface Source Acknowledgments Conventions Introduction: Ab ovo 1. Narrating Myth 2. Beauty 3. Abducting Helen 4. Blame 5. Helen and the Faust Tradition 6. Parodying Helen Notes References Index

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