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Transformations of Circe: The History of an Enchantress
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Transformations of Circe: The History of an Enchantress Paperback - 1994

by Judith Yarnall


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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.

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Stories also have stories. Circle's begins in the Odyssey, on the island of Aiaia that Homer dreamed for her, in the chambers of the palace where she richly entertained Odysseus and in her sty full of sailors turned pigs.

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  • Title Transformations of Circe: The History of an Enchantress
  • Author Judith Yarnall
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Illinois Press, Urbana
  • Date 1994-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780252063565 / 0252063562
  • Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.14 x 6.44 x 0.74 in (23.22 x 16.36 x 1.88 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Literature - History and criticism, Circe (Greek mythology) in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93-14024
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.933

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  • Library Journal, 04/01/1994, Page 100
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