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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Suzuki, Mihoko, 1953- Metamorphoses of Helen. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989 (OCoLC)598598739 Online version: Suzuki, Mihoko, 1953- Metamorphoses of Helen. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1989 (OCoLC)607713550 |
Named Person: | Helen, of Troy Queen of Sparta; William Shakespeare; Edmund Spenser; Virgil; Homer; Helen, of Troy.; Homère; Virgile; Edmund Spenser; William Shakespeare; Helen, of Troy Queen of Sparta.; Homer.; William Shakespeare; Edmund Spenser; Virgil.; Virgile; Edmund Spenser; William Shakespeare; Homère |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mihoko Suzuki |
ISBN: | 0801422191 9780801422195 0801480809 9780801480805 |
OCLC Number: | 19263775 |
Description: | xi, 271 pages ; 24 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Mihoko Suzuki. |
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"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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