Narratives of Egypt and the Ancient Near East
Subtitle: literary and linguistic approaches
By: edited by Fredrik Hagen ... [et al.].
Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta -- 189; Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta -- 189.
Publisher: Peeters; Peeters Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9789042922075
Subjects: Middle Eastern philology; Congresses; Egyptian literature; Middle Eastern literature; History and criticism; Egyptian philology
Notes: " ... originated in a conference entitled "Framing plots : the grammar of ancient Near Eastern narratives", held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 16th - 17th December 2005"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 2400-1500 BC.; title: The oral-compositional form of pyramid text discourse  -- Chris H. Reintges ;; title: Variation in Sumerian myths as a reflection of literary creativity  -- Bendt Alster ;; title: Hero and villain :; title: analyses of Sargon and Ur-Zababa  -- Graham Cunningham ;; title: Of spice and mine :; title: the tale of the shipwrecked sailor and Middle Kingdom expedition inscriptions  -- Roland Enmarch ;; title: Monstrous identities :; title: narrative strategies in Lugale and some reflections on Sumerian religious narrative  -- Laura Feldt ;; title: Broken icons :; title: the emplotting of master-narratives in the Ancient Egyptian tale of Sinuhe  -- Gerald Moers ;; title: Text as territory :; title: mapping Sinuhe's shifting loyalties  -- José-Ramón Pérez-Accino ;; title: Narrative and framing strategies in Old Babylonian Akkadian literature  -- Joan Goodnick Westenholz; title: 1500-500 BC.; title: A true secret of the house of life :; title: prosody, intertext and performance in magical texts  -- Joanna Kyffin ;; title: Intertextuality in Ancient Egyptian visitors' graffiti?  -- Hana Navrátilova ;; title: Narrative methodologies in Ancient Egyptian art history :; title: the military reliefs of Ramsses II at Luxor  -- Aaron Smith ;; title: Examining the "literariness" of Wenamon from the perspective of the grammar of narrative  -- Jacqueline E. Jay ;; title: Systemic functional grammar and its value for the analysis of plot in Biblical Hebrew narratives :; title: a thematic investigation of the Isaac narrative act (Gen. 25:19-28:9) ;; title: The syntax of narrative forms  -- Robert S. Kawashima; title: 500 BC-AD 2000.; title: Information structure and word order in the Aramaic of the Book of Daniel  -- Ilya Yakubovich ;; title: The sinews of demonic narrative  -- John Tait ;; title: The narrative of continuity between the Teaching of Addai and the Acts of Mari :; title: two historical novels?  -- Ilaria Ramelli ;; title: Rhetorical narratives, tableaux and scenarios :; title: work-notes on narrative poetics in Shenoutean Sahidic Coptic  -- Ariel Shisha-Halevy ;; title: Masterplots and martyrs :; title: narrative techniques in Bohairic hagiography  -- Ewa D. Zakrzewska ;; title: The discourse function of independent pronominal subjects in North Eastern Neo-Aramaic -- -- Afterword.; title: Intertextuality, ideology and culture :; title: trajectories of narrato-logical inquiries in ancient Near and Middle Eastern literatures -- Wen-chin Ouyang.