Gilgamesh Enkidu On the Road 100 000 years

Gilgamesh & Enkidu: On the Road (100, 000 years? ? ) Darıldın mı Cicim Bana If these walls could talk. . .

Narrative and Interpretation Telling Stories: What to Expect Genre: Structure and Order Epic: Adventures of the Hero(es)

Structures within structures (Epic) technique: Repetition, significance, symbols Symbolic structures I: the walls Symbolic structures II: the threshold

In Uruk the bridal bed was made, fit for the goddess of love. The bride waited for the bridegroom, but in the night Gilgamesh got up and came to the house. Then Enkidu stepped out, he stood in the street and blocked the way. Mighty Gilgamesh came on and Enkidu met him at the gate. He put out his foot and prevented Gilgamesh from entering the house, so they grappled, holding each other like bulls. They broke the doorposts and the walls shook, they snorted like bulls locked together. They shattered the doorposts and the walls shook…

Gilgamesh and Enkidu’s Excellent Adventures On the road, after Gilgamesh: My Own Private Idaho G and E’s adventure #1: Humbaba • Glorious guardian? Evil enemy? Other? Repetition: the problem of the ‘double’ • Humbaba is the new Enkidu? • Enkidu is the new…? • Crossing the threshold, 2 ways

The Return of Ishtar: Love, War, Death So, we meet again. . . : overturning the order The death of Enkidu: crossing the threshold, 3 The journey, part 2: repetition and reversal Some questions: what is an epic [for]?

Epilogue: What is a woman [for]? Thelma & Louise