Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 271 pages; 21cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Contents: 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. Subjects: Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Knowledge Mythology. Spenser, Edmund 1552?-1599 Knowledge Mythology.Virgil Knowledge Mythology.Homer Knowledge Mythology. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Connaissances Folklore, mythologie. Spenser, Edmund 1552?-1599 Connaissances Folklore, mythologie. Virgile Et la mythologie. Homere Connaissances Folklore, mythologie. Homer Knowledge Mythology.Virgil Knowledge Mythology.Spenser, Edmund 1552?-1599 Knowledge Mythology. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Knowledge Mythology.Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Knowledge Mythology. Spenser, Edmund 1552?-1599 Knowledge Mythology.Virgil Knowledge Mythology.Homer Knowledge Mythology. Helen of Troy, Queen of SpartaHomer. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616Spenser, Edmund 1552?-1599. Virgil Helen of Troy.Homer Knowledge Folklore, mythology.Virgil Knowledge Folklore, mythology. Spenser, Edmund 1552?-1599. Faerie queene. Virgil. Aeneis. Virgil. Aeneis. English. Virgil. Aeneis. Latin (Gould and Whiteley)Virgil. Aeneis. 1 Kg.

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Title: Metamorphoses of Helen : authority, difference, and the epic / Mihoko Suzuki
Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0801422191
ISBN 13: 9780801422195
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Weight: 1 kilogram

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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.

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Mihoko Suzuki is Associate Professor of English at the University of Miami, Coral Gables.

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