Laurie Maguire

Gebundenes Buch

Helen Troy

Beschreibung

Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood is a comprehensive literarybiography of Helen of Troy, which explores the ways in which herstory has been told and retold in almost every century from theancient world to the modern day.

Takes readers on an epic voyage into the literaryrepresentations of a woman who has wielded a great influence onWestern 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, andworks by Homer, Euripides, Chaucer, Shakespeare
Includes an analysis of a radio play by the prize-winningauthor of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and aFaust play by a contemporary Scottish playwright
Explores themes such as narrative difficulties in portrayingHelen, how legal history relates to her story, and how writersapportion blame or exculpate her
Considers the aesthetic and narrative difficulties that ensuewhen literature translates myth

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9781405126342
• ISBN-10: 1405126345
• Artikelnr.: 26611196

Rezensionen

"Combining wit, learning, and insight, Maguire offers delightful reading both for the specialist and for the serious general reader." (Library Journal, May 2009)

"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)

"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." (Translation & Literature, 2010)

"M.'s survey is impressively broad in scope ... .An impressive achievement." (The Classical Journal, February 2010)

"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." (The Times Literary Supplement, November 2009)

"Combining wit, learning, and insight, Maguire offers delightful reading both for the specialist and for the serious general reader." (Library Journal, May 2009)