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Metamorphoses of Helen : authority, difference, and the epic

Mihoko Suzuki sheds light on a literary tradition that seemingly holds Helen of Troy and her descendants responsible for causing epic conflicts, while it appropriates the woman's perspective as a source of insight and poetic power. "A superb study of...
Print Book, English, 1989
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1989
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 271 pages ; 24 cm
9780801422195, 9780801480805, 0801422191, 0801480809
19263775
Introduction ; 1. The Iliad ; 2. The Odyssey ; 3. Virgil's Aeneid ; 4. Spenser's Faerie Queene ; 5. Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida ; Epilogue: Antony and Cleopatra