Grafting Helen - Abduction of the Classical Past

About the author

Matthew Gumpert is assistant professor of core curriculum at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. He has taught comparative literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Harvard University. His published work includes the English translation of Murder and Difference: Gender, Genre, and Scholarship on Sistera's Death by Mieke Bal.

Summary

This text contends that Helen of Troy, and in particular the use of her image, is a crucial emblem for much of Western thought and literature and suggests that it has been stolen, appropriated, imitated, extorted and coveted throughout the course of history.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Gumpert
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.03.2002
• EAN: 9780299171209
• ISBN: 978-0-299-17120-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 238 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Wisconsin Studies in Classics; Wisconsin Studies in Classics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies