Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry
Subtitle: Among Other Histories
By: R. B. Parkinson.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chichester, U.K; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781405125475
Subjects: Egyptian poetry -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [330]-381) and index.
Table of contents: title: Performing poetry; title: Visitors in egypt; title: Reciting two poems at Abu (c. 1840 BC); title: A performance; title: Reading old poems; title: Writing at the southern city (c. 1780 BC); title: A certain provincial scribe (c. 1780 BC); title: A library at the southern city (c. 1680 BC); title: Old imperial classics in the New Kingdom and beyond (c. 1550-500 BC); title: Studying and interpreting texts; title: Some modern readers (AD 1836 on); title: Among other histories; title: Appendix : translations of the 12th-Dynasty papyri.