@article{1381177,
      author = {Doherty, Lillian Eileen,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1381177},
      title = {Siren songs : gender, audiences, and narrators in the  Odyssey /},
      publisher = {University of Michigan Press,},
      abstract = {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.},
      recid = {1381177},
      pages = {viii, 220 pages ;},
      address = {Ann Arbor :},
      year = {1995},
}