An edition of Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories
(2009)
Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry
Among Other Histories
by R. B. Parkinson
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In Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry, Richard Parkinson explores how ancient Egyptian poems have been read and perceived across the ages.
Presents an innovative and theoretically-informed account of how the most famous ancient Egyptian
poems have been read over 4,000 years
From a leading expert in the interpretation of ancient Egyptian literature
Explores the original experience of ordinary Egyptians enjoying the poems as well as their interpretation
during the Middle Kingdom and up to modern times
Draws on recent discoveries in the British Museum archives to reconstruct the contexts of the poems
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Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories
2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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1405125470 9781405125475
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Table of Contents
Performing poetry
Visitors in egypt
Reciting two poems at Abu (c. 1840 BC)
A performance
Reading old poems
Writing at the southern city (c. 1780 BC)
A certain provincial scribe (c. 1780 BC)
A library at the southern city (c. 1680 BC)
Old imperial classics in the New Kingdom and beyond (c. 1550-500 BC)
Studying and interpreting texts
Some modern readers (AD 1836 on)
Among other histories
Appendix : translations of the 12th-Dynasty papyri.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [330]-381) and index.
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