Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry The editing, translation, and publication of ancient Egyptian texts has been central to the discipline of Egyptology since its inception. This book presents an innovative and theoretically informed account of how the most famous Ancient Egyptian poems have been read over a period of 4,000 years.
Full description- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
- Published: 03 March 2009
- Format: Hardback 416 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets | Ancient History: To C 500 CE
- ISBN 13: 9781405125475 ISBN 10: 1405125470
- Sales rank: 573,989
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Full description for Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry
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
