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CHAPTER 1: THE BODY OF HELEN.- PART 1: THE METAMORPHOSES OF HELEN.- CHAPTER 2: HELEN IN THE FLUCTUATING CANON OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES.- CHAPTER 3: THE APOTHEOSES OF HELEN IN THE SPANISH GOLDEN AGE.- CHAPTER 4: THE PETRARCHAN BUST AND ITS BOUNDARIES.- PART 2: A BODY IN CRISIS.- CHAPTER 5: THE BAROQUE AND THE POLITICS OF THE ABSENT BODY.- CHAPTER 6: SAPPHO IN THE TROPICS: UN-CONJURING HELEN IN (POST)VICTORIAN CULTURE.- CHAPTER 7: DRUNK ON THE RAMBLAS: HELEN IS DEAD—LONG LIVE HELEN! BY WAY OF CONCLUSION.

The Invention of the Lyric Body

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      Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
      Publication Date: 04/12/2025
      ISBN13: 9783032076601, 978-3032076601
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      CHAPTER 1: THE BODY OF HELEN.- PART 1: THE METAMORPHOSES OF HELEN.- CHAPTER 2: HELEN IN THE FLUCTUATING CANON OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES.- CHAPTER 3: THE APOTHEOSES OF HELEN IN THE SPANISH GOLDEN AGE.- CHAPTER 4: THE PETRARCHAN BUST AND ITS BOUNDARIES.- PART 2: A BODY IN CRISIS.- CHAPTER 5: THE BAROQUE AND THE POLITICS OF THE ABSENT BODY.- CHAPTER 6: SAPPHO IN THE TROPICS: UN-CONJURING HELEN IN (POST)VICTORIAN CULTURE.- CHAPTER 7: DRUNK ON THE RAMBLAS: HELEN IS DEAD—LONG LIVE HELEN! BY WAY OF CONCLUSION.

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