LEADER 05930nam 2200661Ia 450 001 996441550903316 005 20231110221929.0 010 $a1-282-11647-9 010 $a9786612116476 010 $a1-4443-0862-9 010 $a1-4443-0863-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000754335 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH4284400 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000170083 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11183985 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000170083 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10215103 035 $a(PQKB)11728366 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC428103 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL428103 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10308041 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL211647 035 $a(OCoLC)476272584 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7104573 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7104573 035 $a(JP-MeL)3000111923 035 $a(PPN)250123347 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000754335 100 $a20081107d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHelen of Troy$b[electronic resource] $efrom Homer to Hollywood /$fLaurie Maguire 210 $aMalden, MA $cWiley-Blackwell$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 225 1 $aNew York Academy of Sciences 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4051-2635-3 311 $a1-4051-2634-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aList of Illustrations Preface Source Acknowledgments Conventions Introduction: Ab ovo Beginnings Stories and Contexts 1. Narrating Myth Whose Story? Absence Fragments and Narrative Closure The Textual Shudder Myth and Repetition Origins Myth and Meaning Causes (En)Closure 2. 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 3. 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 (of Troy) Rape as Revenge 4. 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 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 (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 6. Parodying Helen Comedy The Novel Caribbean Helen: Derek Walcott, Omeros (1990) Notes References Index 330 8 $aIn an engaging and original new work filled with scholarly insights, 'Helen of Troy' takes readers on an epic voyage into the literary representations of a woman who has wielded a great influence on Western cultural consciousness for more than three millennia.$bHelen 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 Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive examination of the ways in which Helen's story has been told and re-told from the ancient world to the present day. In this wide-ranging literary biography, Laurie Maguire analyzes ongoing debates about Helen's sexual culpability, as seen through the prism of society's evolving attitudes to issues such as beauty and rape. The aesthetic and narrative difficulties that ensue when literature translates myth are also considered, yet through it all, we see how Helen of Troy's contradictory legacy has transcended the ages and endured in literature. Works by Homer, Euripides, Chaucer, Shakespeare and others are explored, as well as Helen's resurgent popularity in a surprising variety of modern novels, plays, and films. 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