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Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood Hardcover - 2009
by Maguire, Laurie
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- Title Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood
- Author Maguire, Laurie
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1
- Condition Used: Good
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Interscience, Oxford
- Date 2009-04-27
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # SONG1405126345
- ISBN 9781405126342 / 1405126345
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.3 x 0.9 in (22.86 x 16.00 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress subjects Helen of Troy (Greek mythology) in literature
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008047932
- Dewey Decimal Code 809.933
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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.
In an engaging and original new work filled with scholarly insights, Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood 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.
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- Choice, 11/01/2009, Page 0
- Library Journal, 05/15/2009, Page 75