Odysseus: Narrator, Storyteller, Poet?

Beck, Deborah

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“…1 By contrast, recent studies implicitly or explicitly influenced by theoretical developments in narratology, pragmatics, and performativity have highlighted the fact that the apologoi are a speech act uttered by the secondary narrator Odysseus to an audience of Phaeacians on whom he depends to escort him home. It is now well established that the apologoi stylistically differ from the main narrative (Goldhill 1991;de Jong 1992;2001;Beck 2005) and that their emphasis on hospitality 2 On the history of the idea of Odysseus as paradigmatic speaker, see Stanford 1954. 3 On the symmetrical structure of the apologoi, see Woodhouse 1930, 43-44;Germain 1954, 333;Whitman 1958, 288;Niles 1978;Scully 1987;Most 1989, 21-24;Cook 1995, 65-92.…”

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Narrative and Rhetoric in Odysseus' Tales to the Phaeacians

Hopman¹

2012

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As Odysseus cautiously prepares to enter the straits plagued by Charybdis and Scylla, he encourages his crew by referring to his earlier success against the Cyclops (Od. 12.208-12). This article argues that the Odyssey constructs the Scylla adventure as a tale of heroic failure in contrast with the Cyclops episode. Special attention is paid to narrative paradigms that underlie the Scylla episode and emphasize Odysseus' inability to defeat the monster. I further show that the Cyclops/Scylla contrast serves both as an argument presented to Odysseus' internal Phaeacian audience and an interpretive key for the external audience.

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2012

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Character, Narrator, and Simile in the <I>Iliad</I>

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2011

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The Brick-Built Sea: Adapting the Odyssey in LEGO

Muchnick

2023

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In the summer of 2014, a group of Adult Fans of LEGO (AFOLs) designed and constructed a massive LEGO model of Homer’s Odyssey—a model worth analysing as an artistic adaptation of a canonical work of classical literature. Drawing on recent scholarship in the field of LEGO studies, this article examines this model in the context of LEGO as an artistic medium. It then considers the ways in which this model engages with modern conceptions of the idea of ‘epic’, while also using Mikhail Bakhtin’s distinction between epic and novel to explore some of the model’s more novelistic qualities. Finally, this article seeks to position the model within—and in opposition to—a wider landscape of LEGO-centric classical engagement.

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Odysseus: Narrator, Storyteller, Poet?

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

Narrative and Rhetoric in Odysseus' Tales to the Phaeacians

Narrative and Rhetoric in Odysseus' Tales to the Phaeacians

Character, Narrator, and Simile in the <I>Iliad</I>

The Brick-Built Sea: Adapting the Odyssey in LEGO

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