Transformations of Circe : The HISTORY of an ENCHANTRESS

Name: Transformations of Circe
Brand: University of Illinois Press
SKU: 9780252063565
Price: 4500 KES
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780252063565

by Judith Yarnall

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0252063562

ISBN-13 9780252063565

Publisher University of Illinois Press

Imprint University of Illinois Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 1st, 1994

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 396 grams

Dimensions 22.90 x 15.30 x 2.40 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: general

KSh 4,500.00

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A history of the Circe myth.

Beginning with a detailed study of Homer''s balance of negative and positive elements in the Circe-Odysseus myth, Judith Yarnall employs text and illustrations to demonstrate how Homer''s Circe is connected with age-old traditions of goddess worship. She then examines how the image of a one-sided "witch," who first appeared in the commentary of Homer''s allegorical interpreters, proved remarkably persistent, influencing Virgil and Ovid. Yarnall concludes with a discussion of work by Margaret Atwood and Eudora Welty in which the enchantress at last speaks in her own voice: that of a woman isolated by, but unashamed of, her power.

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