Helen of Troy : From Homer to Hollywood.

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons 2009.
Temas:
Helen, > of Troy, Queen of Sparta
Helen of Troy (Greek mythology) in literature.
Mythology, Greek.
Mythologie grecque.
Literature
Mythology, Greek
Electronic books.
Electronic resource.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Source Acknowledgments
  • Conventions
  • Introduction: Ab ovo
  • Beginnings
  • Stories and Contexts
  • Chapter 1 Narrating Myth
  • Whose Story?
  • Absence
  • Fragments and Narrative
  • The Textual Shudder
  • Myth and Repetition
  • Origins
  • Myth and Meaning
  • Causes
  • (En)Closure
  • Chapter 2 Beauty
  • Excess and Deficiency
  • Narrating the Absolute
  • Staging the Absolute
  • Detailing Helen
  • The Beauty Effect
  • Helen8217;s Breasts
  • Androgyny
  • Helen8217;s Scar
  • Relativizing the Absolute
  • Helen and Old Age
  • Beauty: Subjectivity and Objectivity
  • Beauty and Nostalgia
  • Chapter 3 Abducting Helen
  • Missing Moments
  • Homer, the Iliad
  • Herodotus, the Histories
  • Chaucer and Narrative Gaps
  • Helen and Cressida
  • The Law8217;s Resolution of Women8217;s Rights (1632)
  • Statute Change in 1597
  • The Rape of Lucrece (1594)
  • Helen (of Troy)
  • Rape as Revenge
  • Chapter 4 Blame
  • Accounts
  • Casting Blame: Helen, Paris, and the Gods
  • Sidestepping Blame: Sympathy in the Iliad
  • Competing Narratives: the Odyssey
  • 8220;Twisting Eulogy / And Censure Both Together8221;
  • 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
  • Chapter 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 (17498211;1832)
  • Goethe and Representation
  • Goethe and the Beauty of Language
  • The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships
  • Jo Clifford (19508211;)
  • Clifford8217;s Helen and Gender Politics
  • Chapter 6 Parodying Helen
  • Comedy
  • The Novel
  • Caribbean Helen: Derek Walcott, Omeros (1990)
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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