EN 1002 Lecture Notes - Cheryl Crawford, Narrative Poetry, Odysseus
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En 1002 summer 2010 cheryl crawford. Lecture 4 circe/mud poems july 06. A single story can disposes while allowing multiple stories to empower. The audience, the masses, the non-elites, (in her stories, the indigenous people), the disenfranchised story tellers. The odyssey functions what it does in our culture like genesis as a foundation myth. The heroes of the epic (long narrative poem), in the conventional kind of epic, the hero is always found in a mission that saves the nation. The two female narratives resist this narrative as they resist the eliminating. The hero who needs to save the nation needs to be the embodiment of all we responsibilities of feminism? value in masculinity. Odysseus is the only one who is capable of resisting her power. The most significant part of her power is being able to transform men into animals, her ability to transform is dangerous to the men because she can create change and transform the story.
