Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood
by Original Author: Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College, Oxford, UK)Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2009-04-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
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
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | |
| Preface | |
| Source Acknowledgments | |
| Conventions | |
| Introduction: Ab ovo | |
| Beginnings | |
| Stories and Contexts | |
| Narrating Myth | |
| Whose Story? | |
| Absence | |
| Fragments and Narrative | |
| Closure The Textual Shudder | |
| Myth and Repetition | |
| Origins | |
| Myth and Meaning | |
| Causes | |
| (En)Closure | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Rape as Revenge | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Parodying Helen | |
| Comedy | |
| The Novel | |
| Caribbean Helen: Derek Walcott, Omeros (1990) | |
| Notes | |
| References | |
| Index | |
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