Helen of Troy – From Homer to Hollywood

List of Illustrations
<p>Preface</p>
<p>Source Acknowledgments</p>
<p>Conventions</p>
<p>Introduction: Ab ovo</p>
<p>Beginnings</p>
<p>Stories and Contexts</p>
<p>1. Narrating Myth</p>
<p>Whose Story?</p>
<p>Absence</p>
<p>Fragments and Narrative</p>
<p>Closure The Textual Shudder</p>
<p>Myth and Repetition</p>
<p>Origins</p>
<p>Myth and Meaning</p>
<p>Causes</p>
<p>(En)Closure</p>
<p>2. Beauty</p>
<p>Excess and Deficiency</p>
<p>Narrating the Absolute</p>
<p>Staging the Absolute</p>
<p>Detailing Helen</p>
<p>The Beauty Effect</p>
<p>Helen s Breasts</p>
<p>Androgyny</p>
<p>Helen s Scar</p>
<p>Relativizng the Absolute</p>
<p>Helen and Old Age</p>
<p>Beauty: Subjectivity and Objectivity</p>
<p>Beauty and Nostalgia</p>
<p>3. Abducting Helen</p>
<p>Missing Moments</p>
<p>Homer, the Iliad</p>
<p>Herodotus, the Histories</p>
<p>Chaucer and Narrative Gaps</p>
<p>Helen and Cressida</p>
<p>The Law s Resolution of Women s Rights (1632)</p>
<p>Statute Change in 1597</p>
<p>The Rape of Lucrece (1594)</p>
<p>Helen (of Troy)</p>
<p>Rape as Revenge</p>
<p>4. Blame</p>
<p>Accounts</p>
<p>Casting Blame: Helen, Paris, and the Gods</p>
<p>Sidestepping Blame: Sympathy in the Iliad</p>
<p>Competing Narratives: the Odyssey</p>
<p>"Twisting Eulogy/And Censure Both Together"</p>
<p>Voicing Helen: Euripides</p>
<p>Helen Among the Sophists</p>
<p>Agency (1): Joseph of Exeter</p>
<p>Agency (2): Middle English Troy Books</p>
<p>George Peele, The Tale of Troy (1589)</p>
<p>Deifying Helen: John Ogle, The Lamentation of Troy (1594)</p>
<p>Mimetic Desire, the Scapegoat, and Blasphemy</p>
<p>Naming and Shaming</p>
<p>5. Helen and the Faust Tradition</p>
<p>Form and Appearance in the English Faust Book</p>
<p>Helen in the English Faust Book</p>
<p>Dr Faustus and Language</p>
<p>Dr Faustus and Boundaries</p>
<p>Goethe (1749 1832) Goethe and Representation</p>
<p>Goethe and the Beauty of Language</p>
<p>The Face that Launched a Thousand Ships</p>
<p>Jo Clifford (1950 )</p>
<p>Clifford s Helen and Gender Politics</p>
<p>6. Parodying Helen</p>
<p>Comedy</p>
<p>The Novel</p>
<p>Caribbean Helen: Derek Walcott, Omeros (1990)</p>
<p>Notes</p>
<p>References</p>
<p>Index</p>