Egypt
Wiley
Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for this link.
Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories
R. B. Parkinson
Wiley
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Egypt
New Book: Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry
Wiley
Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for this link.
Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories
R. B. Parkinson
Wiley
“Parkinson, one of the foremost scholars of ancient Egyptian literature, does much more than provide translations of these well-known narratives: he brings them back to life by showing us how they were part of the lives of everyday ancient Egyptians, reconstructing their entire performative context and giving us a rich picture of the performers, the audiences, and their physical and cultural world. It will be impossible to read these texts in the same way again.” Orly Goldwasser, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
“Parkinson’s new book challenges fashions and overcomes mere theory to confront us with living literary actors: both the ancient authors who composed timeless poems and the later readers who reinterpreted them within their own history. This is a jewel of literary perceptiveness.” Antonio Loprieno, University of Basel.
The above page also has a Table Of Contents, author information and three exerpts from the book.
- New Book: Religions Of The Ancient Near East
Cambridge University Press Table of Contents and full details available at the above page. This book is a history of religious life in the Ancient Near East from the beginnings of agriculture to Alexander the Great's invasion in the 300s BCE. Daniel...
- Book Review: Poems In Context
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by David Hernández de la Fuente) Laura Miguélez Cavero, Poems in Context: Greek Poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD. Sozomena. Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts 2. Berlin/New York: W. De Gruyter, 2008....
- There Was Once A Man
Al Ahram Weekly (Jenny Jobbins) It has recently been making something of a comeback, but generally speaking the performance art of storytelling has been on a slow decline ever since the invention of the printing press and the consequent rise in literacy...
- New Book: From An Antique Land
Rowman and Littlefield From an Antique Land: An Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Literature. Edited by Carl S. Ehrlich One of the chapters in this book focuses on Egyptian literature. Many of the world's first written records have been found in...
- 100 Hieroglyphs: Think Like An Egyptian
Barry Kemp Granta Books London 2005 ISBN: 1 86207 658 8 This book is based on 100 hieroglyphs that will help one think like an ancient Egyptian The concept of the book interests me very much and is filled with plenty of literary citations from Pharaonic...