Transformations of Circe THE HISTORY OF AN ENCHANTRESS
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780252063565 |
Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
Pub date: | 01 Feb 1994 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 256 |
Weight: | 406g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 153mm |
Spine width: | 24mm |