Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry Among Other Histories
by Parkinson, R. B.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2009-02-17
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
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
Author Biography
R. B. Parkinson is a curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt & Sudan, the British Museum, and regularly teaches in England and Germany. Publications include The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant (1991), the prize-winning Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 BC (1997), and Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt (2002).
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. vi |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Note on Cited Texts | p. xvii |
| Chronology | p. xviii |
| Performing Poetry | p. 1 |
| Visitors in Egypt | p. 3 |
| Reciting Two Poems at Abu (c. 1840 BC) | p. 20 |
| A Performance | p. 41 |
| Reading Old Poems | p. 69 |
| Writing at the Southern City (c. 1780 BC) | p. 71 |
| A Certain Provincial Scribe (c. 1780 BC) | p. 113 |
| A Library at the Southern City (c. 1680 BC) | p. 138 |
| Old Imperial Classics in the New Kingdom and Beyond (c. 1550-500 BC) | p. 173 |
| Studying and Interpreting Texts | p. 219 |
| Some Modern Readers (AD 1836 on) | p. 221 |
| Among Other Histories | p. 260 |
| Appendix: Translations of the 12th-Dynasty Papyri | p. 279 |
| Abbreviations | p. 323 |
| References | p. 330 |
| Index | p. 382 |
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