Helen of Troy : From Homer to Hollywood.

Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Source Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Introduction: Ab ovo -- Beginnings -- Stories and Contexts -- Chapter 1 Narrating Myth -- Whose Story? -- Absence -- Fragments and Narrative -- The Textual Shudder -- Myth and Repetition -- Origins -- Myth and Meaning -- Causes -- (En)Closure -- Chapter 2 Beauty -- Excess and Deficiency -- Narrating the Absolute -- Staging the Absolute -- Detailing Helen -- The Beauty Effect -- Helen's Breasts -- Androgyny -- Helen's Scar -- Relativizing the Absolute -- Helen and Old Age -- Beauty: Subjectivity and Objectivity -- Beauty and Nostalgia -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 6 Parodying Helen -- Comedy.

The Novel -- Caribbean Helen: Derek Walcott, Omeros (1990) -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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