"In this study the author shows that the demands made on the poet, who relies neither on rote memory nor on written notes, have led him to adopt certain memory-based strategies which have left their traces in the text. What we discover is that the poet in an oral tradition makes…
Richard Semon was a German evolutionary biologist who wrote, during the first decade of the 20th century, two analyses of the workings of human memory which were ahead of their time. This book examines Semon's contribution to memory research.
"Richard Semon was a German evolutionary biologist who, during the first decade of the twentieth century, wrote two fascinating analyses of the workings of human memory that were ahead of their time. This book not only examines Semon's contribution to memory research, but also t…