Siren songs: gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey
Odysseus is famous for resisting the appeal of the Sirens, but does the Odyssey itself exert a seductive influence on its female audiences? Doherty argues that it does, especially by contrasting its female characters in the roles of listener and storyteller. Odysseus courts and rewards supportive fe...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Odysseus is famous for resisting the appeal of the Sirens, but does the Odyssey itself exert a seductive influence on its female audiences? Doherty argues that it does, especially by contrasting its female characters in the roles of listener and storyteller. Odysseus courts and rewards supportive female characters like Arete and Penelope by treating them as privileged members of the audience for his own tale of his adventures. At the same time, dangerous female narrators - who, like Helen or the Sirens, threaten to disrupt or revise the hero's story - are discredited by the narrative framework in which their stories appear In a synthesis of audience-oriented and narratological approaches, Doherty examines the relationships among three kinds of audiences: internal, implied, and actual. Internal audiences are made up of characters in the work itself. The Odyssey, rich in storytelling episodes, uses such characters to build patterns of audience response, which in turn allow us to sketch an implied or model audience for the epic as a whole. But while this implied audience includes females as well as males, the epic addresses the two genders differently. Males are addressed as a group of peers, while females are addressed as individuals whose most important ties are to individual males. Like the hero, the epic woos the individual female reader by inviting her to identify with the faithful Penelope Actual audiences, composed of historical individuals, are not compelled to accept the response the epic models for them; but when the model corresponds to gender roles in a reader's own culture, there may be unconscious incentives to accept it. Siren Songs contributes to the growing body of feminist work in the fields of classics and literary criticism while making the fruits of research available to a nonspecialist audience. All Greek is translated and critical terminology is clearly defined. The book will be especially useful to those who study and teach the Odyssey at the college level and above, whether in English, comparative literature, classics, or general humanities courses |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 220 S. |
| ISBN: | 0472105973 |
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| 520 | |a In a synthesis of audience-oriented and narratological approaches, Doherty examines the relationships among three kinds of audiences: internal, implied, and actual. Internal audiences are made up of characters in the work itself. The Odyssey, rich in storytelling episodes, uses such characters to build patterns of audience response, which in turn allow us to sketch an implied or model audience for the epic as a whole. But while this implied audience includes females as well as males, the epic addresses the two genders differently. Males are addressed as a group of peers, while females are addressed as individuals whose most important ties are to individual males. Like the hero, the epic woos the individual female reader by inviting her to identify with the faithful Penelope | ||
| 520 | |a Actual audiences, composed of historical individuals, are not compelled to accept the response the epic models for them; but when the model corresponds to gender roles in a reader's own culture, there may be unconscious incentives to accept it. Siren Songs contributes to the growing body of feminist work in the fields of classics and literary criticism while making the fruits of research available to a nonspecialist audience. All Greek is translated and critical terminology is clearly defined. The book will be especially useful to those who study and teach the Odyssey at the college level and above, whether in English, comparative literature, classics, or general humanities courses | ||
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| spelling | Doherty, Lillian Eileen 1952- Verfasser (DE-588)139185860 aut Siren songs gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey Lillian Eileen Doherty Ann Arbor Univ. of Michigan Press 1995 VIII, 220 S. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Odysseus is famous for resisting the appeal of the Sirens, but does the Odyssey itself exert a seductive influence on its female audiences? Doherty argues that it does, especially by contrasting its female characters in the roles of listener and storyteller. Odysseus courts and rewards supportive female characters like Arete and Penelope by treating them as privileged members of the audience for his own tale of his adventures. At the same time, dangerous female narrators - who, like Helen or the Sirens, threaten to disrupt or revise the hero's story - are discredited by the narrative framework in which their stories appear In a synthesis of audience-oriented and narratological approaches, Doherty examines the relationships among three kinds of audiences: internal, implied, and actual. Internal audiences are made up of characters in the work itself. The Odyssey, rich in storytelling episodes, uses such characters to build patterns of audience response, which in turn allow us to sketch an implied or model audience for the epic as a whole. But while this implied audience includes females as well as males, the epic addresses the two genders differently. Males are addressed as a group of peers, while females are addressed as individuals whose most important ties are to individual males. Like the hero, the epic woos the individual female reader by inviting her to identify with the faithful Penelope Actual audiences, composed of historical individuals, are not compelled to accept the response the epic models for them; but when the model corresponds to gender roles in a reader's own culture, there may be unconscious incentives to accept it. Siren Songs contributes to the growing body of feminist work in the fields of classics and literary criticism while making the fruits of research available to a nonspecialist audience. All Greek is translated and critical terminology is clearly defined. The book will be especially useful to those who study and teach the Odyssey at the college level and above, whether in English, comparative literature, classics, or general humanities courses Homère / Odyssée Homer Odyssey Homerus ca. v8. Jh. Odyssea (DE-588)4193022-8 gnd rswk-swf Esthétique de la réception Femmes et littérature - Grèce Frau Féminisme et littérature - Grèce Geschichte Identité sexuelle dans la littérature Narration Odyssea (Homerus) gtt Poésie épique grecque - Histoire et critique Publiek gtt Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la littérature Rhétorique ancienne Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature Ulysse (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature Vertelkunst gtt Vrouwen gtt Écrivains et lecteurs - Grèce Authors and readers Greece Epic poetry, Greek History and criticism Feminism and literature Greece Gender identity in literature Man-woman relationships in literature Narration (Rhetoric) History To 1500 Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature Reader-response criticism Rhetoric, Ancient Sex role in literature Women and literature Greece Publikum (DE-588)4047764-2 gnd rswk-swf Erzähltechnik (DE-588)4124854-5 gnd rswk-swf Frau (DE-588)4018202-2 gnd rswk-swf Griechenland Homerus (DE-2581)TH000001467 gbd Odyssea (DE-2581)TH000001500 gbd Homerus ca. v8. Jh. Odyssea (DE-588)4193022-8 u Erzähltechnik (DE-588)4124854-5 s DE-604 Frau (DE-588)4018202-2 s Publikum (DE-588)4047764-2 s |
| spellingShingle | Doherty, Lillian Eileen 1952- Siren songs gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey Homère / Odyssée Homer Odyssey Homerus ca. v8. Jh. Odyssea (DE-588)4193022-8 gnd Esthétique de la réception Femmes et littérature - Grèce Frau Féminisme et littérature - Grèce Geschichte Identité sexuelle dans la littérature Narration Odyssea (Homerus) gtt Poésie épique grecque - Histoire et critique Publiek gtt Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la littérature Rhétorique ancienne Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature Ulysse (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature Vertelkunst gtt Vrouwen gtt Écrivains et lecteurs - Grèce Authors and readers Greece Epic poetry, Greek History and criticism Feminism and literature Greece Gender identity in literature Man-woman relationships in literature Narration (Rhetoric) History To 1500 Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature Reader-response criticism Rhetoric, Ancient Sex role in literature Women and literature Greece Publikum (DE-588)4047764-2 gnd Erzähltechnik (DE-588)4124854-5 gnd Frau (DE-588)4018202-2 gnd |
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| title | Siren songs gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey |
| title_auth | Siren songs gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey |
| title_exact_search | Siren songs gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey |
| title_full | Siren songs gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey Lillian Eileen Doherty |
| title_fullStr | Siren songs gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey Lillian Eileen Doherty |
| title_full_unstemmed | Siren songs gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey Lillian Eileen Doherty |
| title_short | Siren songs |
| title_sort | siren songs gender audiences and narrators in the odyssey |
| title_sub | gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey |
| topic | Homère / Odyssée Homer Odyssey Homerus ca. v8. Jh. Odyssea (DE-588)4193022-8 gnd Esthétique de la réception Femmes et littérature - Grèce Frau Féminisme et littérature - Grèce Geschichte Identité sexuelle dans la littérature Narration Odyssea (Homerus) gtt Poésie épique grecque - Histoire et critique Publiek gtt Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la littérature Rhétorique ancienne Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature Ulysse (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature Vertelkunst gtt Vrouwen gtt Écrivains et lecteurs - Grèce Authors and readers Greece Epic poetry, Greek History and criticism Feminism and literature Greece Gender identity in literature Man-woman relationships in literature Narration (Rhetoric) History To 1500 Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature Reader-response criticism Rhetoric, Ancient Sex role in literature Women and literature Greece Publikum (DE-588)4047764-2 gnd Erzähltechnik (DE-588)4124854-5 gnd Frau (DE-588)4018202-2 gnd |
| topic_facet | Homère / Odyssée Homer Odyssey Homerus ca. v8. Jh. Odyssea Esthétique de la réception Femmes et littérature - Grèce Frau Féminisme et littérature - Grèce Geschichte Identité sexuelle dans la littérature Narration Odyssea (Homerus) Poésie épique grecque - Histoire et critique Publiek Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la littérature Rhétorique ancienne Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature Ulysse (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature Vertelkunst Vrouwen Écrivains et lecteurs - Grèce Authors and readers Greece Epic poetry, Greek History and criticism Feminism and literature Greece Gender identity in literature Man-woman relationships in literature Narration (Rhetoric) History To 1500 Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature Reader-response criticism Rhetoric, Ancient Sex role in literature Women and literature Greece Publikum Erzähltechnik Griechenland |
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