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020			_a9781444308631 _q(electronic bk.)
020			_z9781405126359
035			_a(MiAaPQ)EBC7104573
035			_a(Au-PeEL)EBL7104573
035			_a(OCoLC)746575997
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050		4	_aPN57.H4 M34 2009
100	1		_aMaguire, Laurie.
245	1	0	_aHelen of Troy : _bFrom Homer to Hollywood.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aNewark : _bJohn Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, _c2009.
264		4	_c©2009.
300			_a1 online resource (278 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aNew York Academy of Sciences Series
505	0		_aHelen 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.
505	8		_aThe Novel -- Caribbean Helen: Derek Walcott, Omeros (1990) -- Notes -- References -- Index.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aHelen of Troy (Greek mythology) in literature.
650		0	_aMythology, Greek.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aMaguire, Laurie _tHelen of Troy _dNewark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2009 _z9781405126359
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aNew York Academy of Sciences Series
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=7104573 _zClick to View
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