TY - BOOK AB - 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. AB - 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. AB - 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. AU - Doherty, Lillian Eileen, CN - PA4167 CN - PA4167 CY - Ann Arbor : DA - ©1995. ID - 1381177 KW - Epic poetry, Greek KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Man-woman relationships in literature. KW - Feminism and literature KW - Gender identity in literature. KW - Women and literature KW - Authors and readers KW - Reader-response criticism. KW - Sex role in literature. KW - Rhetoric, Ancient. KW - Esthétique de la réception. KW - Femmes et littérature KW - Féminisme et littérature KW - Identité sexuelle dans la littérature. KW - Narration. KW - Poésie épique grecque KW - Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la littérature. KW - Rhétorique ancienne. KW - Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature. KW - Ulysse (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature. KW - Écrivains et lecteurs KW - Poésie épique grecque KW - Ulysse (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature. KW - Relations entre hommes et femmes dans la littérature. KW - Féminisme et littérature KW - Identité sexuelle dans la littérature. KW - Femmes et littérature KW - Écrivains et lecteurs KW - Esthétique de la réception. KW - Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature. KW - Narration. KW - Rhétorique ancienne. KW - 18.43 ancient Greek literature. KW - Authors and readers. KW - Epic poetry, Greek. KW - Feminism and literature. KW - Gender identity in literature. KW - Literature. KW - Man-woman relationships in literature. KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Reader-response criticism. KW - Rhetoric, Ancient. KW - Sex role in literature. KW - Women and literature. KW - Erzähltechnik KW - Frau KW - Publikum KW - Frau KW - Erzähler KW - Odyssea (Homerus) KW - Publiek. KW - Vrouwen. KW - Vertelkunst. KW - Odysseus (Greek mythology) in literature. KW - Man-woman relationships in literature. KW - Gender identity in literature. KW - Reader-response criticism KW - Épopées grecques KW - Identité sexuelle KW - Relations hommes-femmes KW - Féminisme et littérature KW - Publikum. KW - Frau <Motiv> KW - Erzähler <Motiv> N2 - 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. N2 - 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. N2 - 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. PB - University of Michigan Press, PP - Ann Arbor : PY - ©1995. SN - 0472105973 SN - 9780472105977 T1 - Siren songs :gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey / TI - Siren songs :gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey / ER -