Helen of Troy (PDF)
From Homer to Hollywood
(Sprache: Englisch)
Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literary
biography of Helen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her
story has been told and retold in almost every century from the
ancient world to the modern day.
* Takes readers on an...
biography of Helen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her
story has been told and retold in almost every century from the
ancient world to the modern day.
* Takes readers on an...
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Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literary
biography of Helen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her
story has been told and retold in almost every century from the
ancient world to the modern day.
* 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
* Features a wide and diverse variety of literary sources,
including epic, drama, novels, poems, film, comedy, and opera, and
works by Homer, Euripides, Chaucer, Shakespeare
* Includes an analysis of a radio play by the prize-winning
author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and a
Faust play by a contemporary Scottish playwright
* Explores themes such as narrative difficulties in portraying
Helen, how legal history relates to her story, and how writers
apportion blame or exculpate her
* Considers the aesthetic and narrative difficulties that ensue
when literature translates myth
biography of Helen of Troy, which explores the ways in which her
story has been told and retold in almost every century from the
ancient world to the modern day.
* 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
* Features a wide and diverse variety of literary sources,
including epic, drama, novels, poems, film, comedy, and opera, and
works by Homer, Euripides, Chaucer, Shakespeare
* Includes an analysis of a radio play by the prize-winning
author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and a
Faust play by a contemporary Scottish playwright
* Explores themes such as narrative difficulties in portraying
Helen, how legal history relates to her story, and how writers
apportion blame or exculpate her
* Considers the aesthetic and narrative difficulties that ensue
when literature translates myth
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List of Illustrations Preface Source Acknowledgments Conventions Introduction: Ab ovo Beginnings Stories and Contexts 1. Narrating Myth Whose Story? Absence Fragments and Narrative Closure The Textual Shudder Myth and Repetition Origins Myth and Meaning Causes (En)Closure 2. Beauty Excess and Deficiency Narrating the Absolute Staging the Absolute Detailing Helen The Beauty Effect Helen's Breasts Androgyny Helen's Scar Relativizng the Absolute Helen and Old Age Beauty: Subjectivity and Objectivity Beauty and Nostalgia 3. Abducting Helen Missing Moments Homer, the Iliad Herodotus, the Histories Chaucer and Narrative Gaps Helen and Cressida The Law's Resolution of Women's Rights (1632) Statute Change in 1597 The Rape of Lucrece (1594) Helen (of Troy) Rape as Revenge 4. Blame Accounts Casting Blame: Helen, Paris, and the Gods Sidestepping Blame: Sympathy in the Iliad Competing Narratives: the Odyssey "Twisting Eulogy/And Censure Both Together" Voicing Helen: Euripides Helen Among the Sophists Agency (1): Joseph of Exeter Agency (2): Middle English Troy Books George Peele, The Tale of Troy (1589) Deifying Helen: John Ogle, The Lamentation of Troy (1594) Mimetic Desire, the Scapegoat, and Blasphemy Naming and Shaming 5. Helen and the Faust Tradition Form and Appearance in the English Faust Book Helen in the English Faust Book Dr Faustus and Language Dr Faustus and Boundaries Goethe (1749-1832) Goethe and Representation Goethe and the Beauty of Language The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships Jo Clifford (1950- ) Clifford's Helen and Gender Politics 6. Parodying Helen Comedy The Novel Caribbean Helen: Derek Walcott, Omeros (1990) Notes References Index
Autoren-Porträt von Laurie Maguire
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Laurie Maguire
- 2009, 1. Auflage, 280 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 1444308637
- ISBN-13: 9781444308631
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.04.2009
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