Metamorphoses Of Helen Authority, Difference, And The Epic [Paperback]

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 the uses and abuses of female characters in the epic tradition and their complex, sympathetic treatment by male poets. Choice

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