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Helen of Troy: From Homer to HollywoodISBN: 978-1-4443-0863-1
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280 pages
April 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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- 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
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