ENG150Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Odysseus, Cyclops, Parataxis

• School: UTSG
• Department: English
• Course: ENG150Y1
• Professor: Christopher Warley

Document Summary

Slow accumulation of detail until the answer is clear: surprises, there"s (cid:374)o (cid:373)(cid:455)ster(cid:455) to (cid:449)h(cid:455) od(cid:455)sseus struggles i(cid:374) rea(cid:272)hi(cid:374)g ho(cid:373)e, he blinds polyphemus, angering poseidon. It"s od(cid:455)sseus"s fate to rea(cid:272)h itha(cid:272)a, so poseido(cid:374) (cid:272)a(cid:374) o(cid:374)l(cid:455) postpo(cid:374)e o. "s fate. To cyclops there is no externalisation of odysseus, (cid:862)no(cid:271)od(cid:455)(cid:863) 9. 227. 558-562: odysseus is reckless + reveals identity; externalisation of his identity rooted in pride. Explanation, se(cid:272)rets; tradition of storytelling: auerbach: not a tactic to build suspense. Instance of homeric craft; characterisation of the narrative, everything is in the foreground. Homer is hypotactic: subordination of one clause to another, (cid:862)this is ho(cid:449) (cid:455)ou read the se(cid:374)te(cid:374)(cid:272)e,(cid:863) explicit. Do(cid:374)"t know, not explicitly stated: opposite of ho(cid:373)er"s (cid:272)raft. Ho(cid:373)er e(cid:454)plai(cid:374)s everything, the bible does not: no externalisation. Parataxis: clauses without co rdination: co(cid:374)sta(cid:374)t use of (cid:862)a(cid:374)d,(cid:863) (cid:862)the(cid:374),(cid:863) et(cid:272).