Reviews for Mnemosyne, Supplements, Signs of Orality: The Oral Tradition and Its Influence in the Greek and Roman World

The average rating for Mnemosyne, Supplements, Signs of Orality: The Oral Tradition and Its Influence in the Greek and Roman World based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-12-29 00:00:00 Michael Reijpert Essentially, Freud was a storyteller of various kinds from different perspectives. I think this is a very good read for anyone who would like to see the relationship he had with literature that goes beyond psychoanalytic literary criticism. Everyone knows about Freud's textual relations with Goethe, Shakespeare and the Classics, but this book traces those relationships in details, while arguing what it all means to him, his work, his theory etc.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-10-11 00:00:00 Jeanine Stewart Waited to purchase this until it became a bargain, and I'm glad I did. The actual analyses that constitute the bulk of the book were, to my mind, simultaneously thin and tendentious. Given what was presented in the introductory chapters, on the nature and role of emotion in the arts, one expects more and specifically more on the visual nature of emotional experience. Not as impressive a performance as suggested by the title...