Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781845537708
Description: '[T]he book reviewed here certainly represents a landmark. It is the first monograph devoted to an integral study and interpretation of the entire corpus of literature preserved from the Egyptian Middle Kingdom.' Joachim Friedrich Quack, Freie Universitat Berlin, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 124.2 'This is an extremely important book' Piotr Michalowski, George G. Cameron Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations University of Michigan 'Dr Parkinson has produced a work which surpasses all that has been written on Egyptian literature of the classicA" period till now.' --E. Hornung, Professor Emeritus, University of Basel