{"product_id":"helen-of-troy-isbn-9781405126342","title":"Helen of Troy","description":"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.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eTakes 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures a wide and diverse variety of literary sources, including epic, drama, novels, poems, film, comedy, and opera, and works by Homer, Euripides, Chaucer, Shakespeare\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores themes such as narrative difficulties in portraying Helen, how legal history relates to her story, and how writers apportion blame or exculpate her\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders the aesthetic and narrative difficulties that ensue when literature translates myth\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  List of Illustrations  \u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSource Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConventions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction: \u003ci\u003eAb ovo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeginnings\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStories and Contexts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Narrating Myth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhose Story?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbsence\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFragments and Narrative\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClosure The Textual Shudder\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMyth and Repetition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrigins\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMyth and Meaning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCauses\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(En)Closure\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Beauty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExcess and Deficiency\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNarrating the Absolute\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStaging the Absolute\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDetailing Helen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Beauty Effect\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHelen’s Breasts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAndrogyny\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHelen’s Scar\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRelativizng the Absolute\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHelen and Old Age\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeauty: Subjectivity and Objectivity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeauty and Nostalgia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Abducting Helen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMissing Moments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHomer, the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHerodotus, the \u003ci\u003eHistories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChaucer and Narrative Gaps\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHelen and Cressida\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Law’s Resolution of Women’s Rights\u003c\/i\u003e (1632)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStatute Change in 1597\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rape of Lucrece\u003c\/i\u003e (1594)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHelen (of Troy)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRape as Revenge\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Blame\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAccounts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCasting Blame: Helen, Paris, and the Gods\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSidestepping Blame: Sympathy in the \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCompeting Narratives: the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Twisting Eulogy\/And Censure Both Together\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVoicing Helen: Euripides\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHelen Among the Sophists\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAgency (1): Joseph of Exeter\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAgency (2): Middle English Troy Books\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeorge Peele, \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Troy\u003c\/i\u003e (1589)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeifying Helen: John Ogle, \u003ci\u003eThe Lamentation of Troy\u003c\/i\u003e (1594)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMimetic Desire, the Scapegoat, and Blasphemy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNaming and Shaming\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Helen and the Faust Tradition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForm and Appearance in the English Faust Book\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHelen in the English Faust Book\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDr Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e and Language\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDr Faustus\u003c\/i\u003e and Boundaries\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoethe (1749–1832) Goethe and Representation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoethe and the Beauty of Language\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Face that Launched a Thousand Ships\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJo Clifford (1950– )\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClifford’s Helen and Gender Politics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Parodying Helen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComedy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Novel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCaribbean Helen: Derek Walcott, \u003ci\u003eOmeros\u003c\/i\u003e (1990)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Overall, Maguire's book is a remarkably broad literary study of the complex and recurring figure of Helen of Troy. Her work is both comprehensive and detailed, covering a huge body of material both ancient and modern.\" (International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2011)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\"Maguire's book is an unusually effective study of something often invoked in an airy sort of way but difficult to represent concretely and cogently: literature and related arts as an ongoing and continuously motivated enterprise, sometimes almost collective in its workings across great stretches of time.\" (\u003ci\u003eTranslation \u0026amp; Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, 2010)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"M.'s survey is impressively broad in scope ... .An impressive achievement.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Classical Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, February 2010)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Erudite and entertaining ... .We are certainly better equipped to understand the phenomenon of such a mysterious narrative lacuna by the end of Maguire's inspirational book.\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, November 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Combining wit, learning, and insight, Maguire offers delightful reading both for the specialist and for the serious general reader.\" (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, May 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eLaurie Maguire\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Oxford University and has authored or edited six previous books, including \u003ci\u003eStudying Shakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e and the popular \u003ci\u003eWhere There's a Will There's a Way\u003c\/i\u003e. She has lectured widely at literary festivals in the U.S. and U.K.  \u003ci\u003eHelen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cp\u003eIn an engaging and original new work filled with scholarly insights, \u003ci\u003eHelen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989355938021,"sku":"NP9781405126342","price":89.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405126342.jpg?v=1761783793","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/helen-of-troy-isbn-9781405126342","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}