Siren songs : gender, audiences, and narrators in the Odyssey

In Siren Songs: Gender, Audiences, and Narrators in the Odyssey, Lillian Eileen Doherty shows us that the attitude of Odysseus, as well as of the Odyssey , is highly ambivalent toward women. Odysseus rewards supportive female characters by treating them as privileged members of the audience for his own tales. At the same time, dangerous female narrators--who threaten to disrupt or revise the hero's story--are discredited by the narrative framework in which their stories appear.
Siren Songs synthesizes audience-oriented and narratological approaches, and examines the relationships among three kinds of audiences: internal, implied, and actual. The author prefaces her own reading of the Odyssey with an analysis of the issues posed by the earlier feminist readings on which she builds. Should the Odyssey be read as a "closed" text, that is, as one whose meaning is highly determined, or as an "open" text whose contradictions and ambiguities undercut its overt meanings?
Siren Songs presents a feminist critique of the Odyssey in an accessible manner aimed at a more general audience. All Greek is translated, and critical terminology is clearly defined.
Lillian Eileen Doherty is Associate Professor of Classics, University of Maryland, College Park.

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En una sociedad en la que el ritmo de vida cada vez es más acelerado y en la que la palabra "dieta" se asocia a aburrimiento o desgana; este libro enseña al lector cómo adquirir unos hábitos de vida saludables sin que esto se convierta en un castigo. ¿Cómo? Haciendo del helado el "aliado" perfecto para conseguir este objetivo. En esta obra, el lector podrá aprender las pautas a seguir para llevar unos hábitos de vida y unas pautas de alimentación adecuadas de una forma divertida y placentera: ¿a quién no le gusta un helado? Ahora, gracias a La dieta con helados este alimento puede convertirse en un elemento más de la dieta de cualquier persona. Así, la autora explica cómo introducirlo en función de la edad y características de cada persona, presentando ejemplos prácticos de dietas para cualquier edad y condición (para niños, para dietas de adelgazamiento, etc.). Susana Monereo es Jefa de la Sección de Endocrinología y Nutrición del Hospital de Getafe (Madrid), y miembro de la Sociedad Española de Endocrinología y Nutrición. En la actualidad compagina sus actividades docentes, clínica, investigadora y divulgadora en distintos medios con la publicación de artículos y libros sobre su especialidad.

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In this narratological study, Doherty (Univ. of Maryland College Park) argues that the principal females characters in the Odyssey (e.g., Arete and Penelope) maintain a prominent position and identity relative to their male counterparts in the androcentric work. Doherty focuses on the implications of how the Odyssey addresses males and females in its implied audience. The study is directed primarily at feminist critics who have not (consciously) realized how the Odyssey foists its androcentrism even on female characters central to the poem. Citing passages in which there are female narrators or female listeners, Doherty concludes that the author(s) of the Odyssey accommodates the direct narration to fit the internal and implied audience of the scene and poem. Although it makes these female figures more prominent, this adjustment reinforces the poem's androcentric culture and reaffirms the largely closed reading of the Odyssey. Siren Songs offers few insights for the understanding of specific passages of the text. Rather, it functions as a prolegomenon for future feminist criticism of archaic epic. Recommended for graduate students and specialists. C. S. Broeniman St. John Fisher College

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