Helen of Troy

From Homer to Hollywood

Laurie Maguire

Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date : 2009-04-06

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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

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Author

Laurie Maguire

Imprint

Wiley-Blackwell

Collection

n.c

Publication date

2009-04-06

Pages

280 pages

Print ISBN

9781405126359

Language

English

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9781444308631

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£78.02

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Print count 280

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