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CIRCE "Perhaps no parent can truly see their child When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults" Sale: $17.99 to $2.99 by Madeline Miller Rating: 4.5/5 (92,689 Reviews) #Circe #Mythology #Fantasy #Books #Historical #MadelineMiller #BookSky
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Seeing a lot of "discourse" about the new #Odyssey movie lately...
Yet, although I was a proud owner of a multi-set CD of the #Odyssey as a child & despite my love of #GreekMythology -- I can't help wishing it was a #Circe adaptation instead (I'd even take a whole new Journathan journey😂 )!
#movies #GreekMyth #Mythology #MadelineMiller #books #reading
📷 :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circe#/media/File:Circe_Offering_the_Cup_to_Odysseus.jpg
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CW: Spoilers - Madeline Miller -- Circe
Following a student reader's recommendation in a library, I picked up a copy of Madeline Miller's "Circe" and am not sorry I did so.
This reworking and expansion of the lore of Circe from a woman's point of view absorbed me. Unlike some readers, I did not find the narrative dragged at any point, although I did note some weaknesses.
Writing the preceding paragraph, I chose the phrase "from a woman's point of view" rather than "feminist" because the former description seems more appropriate for two sections of the novel which, as it happens, I also consider weaker parts of the work.The first was the account of Circe's rearing of the infant Telegonus, her child by Odysseus. Unlike all those parts of the novel where Miller has reworked ancient narratives, this section lacks - as far as I am aware - much in the way of precedent in the literature of antiquity. This lack throws Miller on her own resources, and the result, with its account of the problems getting the baby to sleep and the other quotidian challenges with which any of us parents reading will be all too familiar, came across as something more inspired by mommy blogging than a mother in myth.
The second section that struck a false note with me was that dealing with Circe's growing love for Telemachus. Here the source material for the liaison can be found in ancient sources, but its narrative treatment in the novel owes more to the modern romance. A narrative's woman protagonist using her feminine sensibility to reawaken an emotionally wounded man to the possibility of love can be found in "Jane Eyre" and its successors of course, but the focus on the man's ability to undertake domestic repairs and facility with refitting means of transport, and the vision of shared travels that follows on from this manly manual labor is indebted, I suspect, to American romance narratives marketed to women but which would be difficult to describe as feminist.
Nevertheless, the conclusion of the novel in which Circe transforms herself from goddess to mortal so that she might live and die as a human with Telemachus shows an impressive use of literary craft in its mirroring of the novel's earlier account of Circe's earlier transformation of the mortal Glaucos into a god and her subsequent disappointment.
The feminist currents of the novel, particularly the attention given to male violence, work well in provoking thought, as do the novel's reflections on magic and mortality. In addition, "Circe" testifies to the enduring power of antique myth. I have more to say about the author's attitude to the gods of Olympus, but that will have to wait for another post. In the meantime, thanks to that student who recommended the book - you should follow up their recommendation too!
#Circe #MadelineMiller #Books
#Novels #Fantasy #Myth #MythicFantasy #GreekMyth #USLiterature #WomensLiterature #Witchcraft #Romance #LiteraryForm #Feminism -
Wieder feines Lesefutter, mit gutem Sog und schnell weggeschnupft. Der Mythos der Halbgöttin Circe feministisch gelesen, Tochter des Sonnengottes und einer Nymphe, sie entwickelt sich zur mächtigen Hexe, ihr Eigensinn gepaart mit Naivität helfen dabei, aber immer diese göttliche Vorsehung und Unsterblich-Sein ist scheinbar auch gar nicht so der Burner, weil dann nichts jemals wirklich endet (watch out, Peter T.!) #books #bookstodon #frauenlesen #MadelineMiller #2024reads #bücherliebe
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Top book of 2024 watch - Dayspring by #AnthonyOliveira (April 2024)
"Oliveira brings to vibrant, glorious life the gospel according to the disciple Christ loved—his companion in the days before the crucifixion, the only instrument that remembers with fidelity his sound. Sacred, profane, and rich with explicit desire and a poetic attention to form...Seamlessly blending fiction, memoir, and verse in the exhilarating tradition of #AnneCarson and #MadelineMiller ..."
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Review of #MadelineMiller's short story #Galatea (2013), bringing the story of the statue brought to life to a satisfying conclusion. #bookstodon https://wp.me/p2oNj1-7bq
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Review of #MadelineMiller's short story #Galatea (2013), bringing the story of the statue brought to life to a satisfying conclusion. #bookstodon https://wp.me/p2oNj1-7bq
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Here is my #GetToKnowMe list for #7books. These items are my favorites because they were entertaining, I connected with them emotionally, and/or they helped me to better know myself.
— House in the Cerulean Sea, #TJKlune
— The Expanse series, #JamesSACorey
— More Happy Than Not, #AdamSilvera
— Red, White & Royal Blue, #CaseyMcQuiston
— Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, #BenjaminAlireSaenz
— The Song of Achilles, #MadelineMiller
— We Are the Ants, #ShaunDavidHutchinson[bringing over some previous posts to my new account]
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Terminado #LaCancionDeAquiles de #MadelineMiller me encanta la mitología y la forma en la que Madeline escribe.
Me he leído #Circe #Galatea y me leeré todo lo que siga escribiendo Miller. Qué maravilla. -
Terminado #LaCancionDeAquiles de #MadelineMiller me encanta la mitología y la forma en la que Madeline escribe.
Me he leído #Circe #Galatea y me leeré todo lo que siga escribiendo Miller. Qué maravilla. -
Epic win! Why women are lining up to reboot the classics https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/29/epic-win-why-women-are-lining-up-to-reboot-the-classics?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Me encanta todo lo que escribe #MadelineMiller : #Circe me flipó, #Galatea es la leche y #Aquiles me está dando la vida (patroclo es ke soy yo literal jajajaajajaj)
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Me encanta todo lo que escribe #MadelineMiller : #Circe me flipó, #Galatea es la leche y #Aquiles me está dando la vida (patroclo es ke soy yo literal jajajaajajaj)
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My recent #7books - #literature for your #soul and #spirituality
In Memory of Memory by #MariaStepanova
The #Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead #Philosophers by #EricWeiner
The Secret of the Kingdom and The Egyptian by #MikaWaltari
Laurus by Eugene #Vodolazkin
The Song of Achilles by #MadelineMiller
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite #Yourcenar
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/12575683-vlad-vorobev #historicalFiction #nonfiction #memory #philosophy #AncientWorld #RussianLiterature @bookstodon
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@albinokid I’ve got a bunch, and it probably rotates by the day/week/month but here’s a for today list #JamesSACorey #nkjemisin #johnscalzi #stephenking #emilystjohnmandell I’m not sure how popular St John Mandell is, but hell, her books are amazing. If I were to boost only one on my current list, it would be her. Also, #JoeAbercrombie #chuckwendig #KenLiu #AndyWeir #ColsonWhitehead #MadelineMiller #FrankHerbert #JRRTolkein #MaryRobinetteKowal #DouglasAdams and #KurtVonnegut
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Have seen a few #bookstodon folks posting this so I’m having a go!
Who are 5-7 of your favorite authors? Add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own, etc. Some of mine: #HilaryMantel
#MadelineMiller
#JaneAusten
#JeanRhys
#MargaretAtwood
#KazuoIshiguro
#JimCrace
… and I suppose I ought to say #LordByron but that’s really for his letters 🤓