Ancient Egyptian Literature: Theory and Practice
Ancient Egyptian Literature: Theory and Practice
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Abstract
This book reviews the numerous developments in the theoretical framework of interpretation that have taken place over recent years. The application of more theoretically informed approaches to the ancient literary corpus, and a more detailed analysis of context, form, and reception, have fundamentally challenged the interpretative paradigms that formerly held sway. No consensus on interpretative stance has yet emerged, and in this volume many of the foremost researchers in the field examine the overall state of work on the subject. The chapters in the present volume are intended to contribute to this development of different approaches in their application to real Egyptian texts. No single overarching theoretical framework underlies these contributions; instead they represent a multiplicity of perspectives. The range of chapters includes textual criticism; literary criticism; the social role of literature; reception theory; and the treatment of newly discovered literary texts. All contributions centre on the problems and potentials of studying Egyptian literature in a theoretically informed manner. Although major difficulties remain in interpreting a literature preserved only fragmentarily, this volume demonstrates the ongoing vitality of current Egyptological approaches to this problem. This volume also incorporates a broader cross-cultural and comparative element, providing overviews of connections and discontinuities with biblical, Classical, and Mesopotamian literatures, in order to address the comparative contexts of Ancient Egyptian literature.
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Theory and Practice in Ancient Egyptian Literature
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Comparative Contexts for Ancient Egyptian Literature
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Ancient Egyptian Literature
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Amunnakht, Scribe and Poet of Deir el-Medina: A Study of Ostracon O Berlin P 14262
Günter Burkard
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Mortuary and Literary Laments: A Comparison
Roland Enmarch
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The Practice of Literature: The Relationship between Content, Form, Audience, and Performance
Christopher Eyre
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Papyrus Queen’s College Recto: A Narrative in Abnormal Hieratic
Hans-W. Fischer-Elfert
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Sensuous Experience, Performance, and Presence in Third Intermediate Period Biography
Elizabeth Frood
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Constructing Textual Identity: Framing and Self-Reference in Egyptian Texts
Fredrik Hagen
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Ancient Egyptian Literature: Genre and Style
Verena M. Lepper
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Egyptian Life, by and with Literary Texts
Ludwig D. Morenz
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The Reception of Demotic Narrative
John Tait
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Literatures in Dialogue: A Comparison of Attitudes to Speech in Babylonian and Middle Egyptian Literature
Martin Worthington
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Amunnakht, Scribe and Poet of Deir el-Medina: A Study of Ostracon O Berlin P 14262
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