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Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood

By Laurie Maguire

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2009
ISBN
1405126345, 9781405126342, 9781444308631
LCC
PN57.H4 M34 2009
Open Library ID
OL22672166M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1402407 bytes)
Pages
280\277
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

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 millenniaFeatures a wide and diverse variety of literary sources, including epic, drama, novels, poems, film, comedy, and opera, and works by Homer, Euripides, Chaucer, ShakespeareIncludes 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 playwrightExplores themes such as narrative difficulties in portraying Helen, how legal history relates to her story, and how writers apportion blame or exculpate herConsiders the aesthetic and narrative difficulties that ensue when literature translates myth

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