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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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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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