Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom write by Norman Austin. This book was released on 2018-09-05. Helen of Troy and Her Shameless Phantom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like the male heroes of epic poetry, Helen of Troy has been immortalized, but not for deeds of strength and honor; she is remembered as the beautiful woman who disgraced herself and betrayed her family and state. Norman Austin here surveys interpretations of Helen in Greek literature from the Homeric period through later antiquity. He looks most closely at a revisionist myth according to which Helen never sailed to Troy, but remained blameless, while a libertine phantom or ghost impersonated her at Troy. Comparing the functions of contradictory images of Helen, Austin helps to clarify the problematic relations between beauty and honor and between ugliness and shame in ancient Greece. Austin first discusses the canonical account of the Iliad and the Odyssey: Helen as the archetype of woman without shame. He next considers different versions of Helen in the Homeric tradition. Among these, he shows how Sappho presents Helen as an icon of absolute beauty while she defends her own preference of eros over honor and her choice of woman as the object of desire. Austin then turns to three major authors who repudiated the traditional Helen of Troy: the lyric poet Stesichorus and the dramatist Euripides, who embraced the alternative myth of Helen's phantom; and the historian Herodotus, who claimed to have found in Egypt a Helen story that dispenses with both Helen and the phantom. Austin maintains that the conflicting motives that prompted these writers to rehabilitate Helen led to further revisions of her image, though none have endured as a credible substitute for the Helen of epic tradition.
Lyric Trade
Lyric Trade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lyric Trade write by Julia Bloch. This book was released on 2024-04-29. Lyric Trade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sometimes the word “lyric” seems to appear everywhere: either it’s used interchangeably with the word “poetry” or it attaches to descriptions of literature, art, film, and even ordinary objects in order to capture some quality of aesthetic appeal or meaning. Lyric Trade is not yet another attempt to define the lyric, but instead it digs into how poems use lyric in relation to race, gender, nation, and empire. Engaging with poets such as Gwendolyn Brooks, H.D., Lorine Niedecker, Alice Notley, and Myung Mi Kim, this book asks: What does lyric mean, and why should it matter to poets and readers? Lyric Trade argues that lyric in the postwar long poem not only registers the ideological contradictions of modernism’s insistence on new forms, but that it also maps spaces for formal reimaginings of the subject.
Helen of Troy
Helen of Troy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Helen of Troy write by Ruby Blondell. This book was released on 2015. Helen of Troy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Helen of Troy engages with the ancient origins of the persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way that both extends our understanding of that culture and provides a useful perspective for reconsidering aspects of our own.
Laughing with Medusa
Laughing with Medusa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Laughing with Medusa write by Vanda Zajko. This book was released on 2006-01-12. Laughing with Medusa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Laughing with Medusa explores a series of interlinking questions, including: Does history's self-positioning as the successor of myth result in the exclusion of alternative narratives of the past? How does feminism exclude itself from certain historical discourses? Why has psychoanalysis placed myth at the centre of its explorations of the modern subject? Why are the Muses feminine? Do the categories of myth and politics intersect or are they mutually exclusive? Does feminism's recourse to myth offer a script of resistance or commit it to an ineffective utopianism? Covering a wide range of subject areas including poetry, philosophy, science, history, and psychoanalysis as well as classics, this book engages with these questions from a truly interdisciplinary perspective. It includes a specially commisssioned work of fiction, `Iphigeneia's Wedding', by the poet Elizabeth Cook.
Logos and Muthos
Logos and Muthos - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Logos and Muthos write by William Wians. This book was released on 2010-07-02. Logos and Muthos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the philosophical dimensions present in the works of ancient Greek poets and playwrights.
