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Mythos and Voice
Displacement, Learning, and Agency in Odysseus' World
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2018
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This book focuses on mythos and voice in the Odyssey, to illuminate its characters’ journeys from social displacement through discovery and recovery. Mythos and Voice approaches the Odyssey as a narrative of displacement – a narrative that maps the social displacement of its characters, explores the cognitive consequences of that displacement, and embodies the variable strategies by which those characters learn to resolve their displacement. It is a narrative that also employs and elaborates the characters’ own narratives of displacement as genres enabling them to resist externally imposed definitions of their situations and to redefine and ultimately reclaim their own place in the world, not as it was before their displacement, but as it must be, given the new post-heroic world in which they now live.
The focus on mythos and voice enables readers to approach the study of learning and the acquisition of personal agency in the context of a hazardous world – the cultural world that Odysseus navigates in Homer’s epic poem. With this focus, the author examines interactive processes of human learning in a specific cultural context – the epic universe of Homeric narrative. By ethnographically examining the learning contexts portrayed inHomer’s epic, Mythos and Voice elucidates an Archaic Greek view of human learning through examples that show how the author(s) of the Odyssey envisioned and dramatized displacement, learning and agency in the epic work. The book focuses on aspects of Homeric cognition as they cumulatively develop among key characters within the Odyssey’s inventive narrative structure. In this way, Mythos and Voice describes a culturally specific “theory” of learning and development – a perspective that proved compelling in the pre-classical and classical Greek world, even as it does to readers now.
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Copyright year
2018
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-3424-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-3425-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
210
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Contents No access
Introduction No access
Displacement and Recognition No access
Displacement and Learning in Sociocultural Context No access
Voices of the Dead No access
Learning and Agency in the Odyssey No access
The Predicament of Learning No access
The Zone of Transition No access
Transformative Breath No access
Stirring the Mind to Action No access
Learning in Context No access
Telemakhos in Transition No access
Telemakhos’ Expanding Perspectives No access
An Expanding Universe No access
Mentor’s Role No access
THE WONDER OF DISPLACEMENT No access
Wondering as an Alternative Mythos No access
Penelope’s Weaving as a Narrative of Displacement No access
Mythos and Mētis in the Emergence of Agency No access
Displacement and Identity No access
Surviving Trauma: Mētis as a Navigational Process No access
From Presumption to Perspective No access
Finding One’s Voice in the Face of Death No access
Mythos and Voice on the Path to Agency No access
Nóos and Mētis in Expansive Re-cognition No access
The Slavery of Choice and the Recognition of Self No access
Recognition and Recovery No access
Learning and Agency as Anticipatory Appropriation No access
The Relational Habitus of Collaborative Learning No access
