Helen Troy by Maguire, Laurie

Helen Troy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405126359)

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Helen Troy by Maguire, Laurie

Helen Troy

$43.95
Helen Troy by Maguire, Laurie

Helen Troy

$43.95
Format: Paperback
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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.
  • 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


Author: Laurie Maguire
ISBN-10: 1405126353
ISBN-13: 9781405126359
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 04/27/2009
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/15/2009 pg. 75
Choice 11/01/2009
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2009 pg. 262
By Laurie Maguire
By Laurie Maguire
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Laurie Maguire is Professor of English at Oxford University and has authored or edited six previous books, including Studying Shakespeare and the popular Where There's a Will There's a Way. She has lectured widely at literary festivals in the U.S. and U.K.

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