Description
| Product ID: | 9780252063565 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Transformations of Circe |
| Subtitle: | THE HISTORY OF AN ENCHANTRESS |
| Authors: | Author: Judith Yarnall |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: general |
| Description: | 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Illinois Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of Illinois Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1994-02-01 |
