rld_8's review against another edition
Was a book for a class, we didn’t read all of it
shanth's review against another edition
2.0
To begin with the central metaphor of "telescopes vs. microscopes" to contrast a bird's eye view vs. an in-depth study irked me a lot (since both those instruments actually narrow your attention to minutiae in your field of vision. Perhaps a telephoto vs wide-angle panoramic view would have been a better metaphor). That in itself, is just a minor problem that could be overlooked, but the entire book seems to be a bag of such metaphors without much content that I personally found interesting. This book seems to lie in that middle ground where it's neither actual comparative mythology comparing texts in detail, nor does it talk purely in the abstract about the problems of undertaking such studies.
taraarat's review against another edition
to read because of my interest in postmodern narrative and myth.
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