Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood
- Author / Editor
- Maguire, Laurie.
Helen of Troy: From Homer to Hollywood
- Published
- Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 258 pp.; b&w illus.
- Description
- Surveys representations of Helen in literature, assessing the characterization in light of prevailing attitudes towards such topics as beauty, sexual culpability, and rape. Includes a summary of Chaucer's Helen in TC as an example of ambiguity, where Helen and Deiphobus are "as eager for privacy as is Troilus" and Criseyde's "succumbing to temptation is a slow-motion gloss on Helen's earlier situation."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde