Framing an ancient literature: Material and other philologies of Middle Egyptian poems

Ancient Egyptian texts pose many familiar ‘literary’ problems in an extreme (and therefore potentially revealing) form, partly because of their cultural and chronological alterity, but also because of their limited modern receptions. I here briefly sketch, from a personal and pragmatic perspective,...

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Main Author: Parkinson, R
Other Authors: Ajouri, P
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Published: Erich Schmidt Verlag 2017
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description Ancient Egyptian texts pose many familiar ‘literary’ problems in an extreme (and therefore potentially revealing) form, partly because of their cultural and chronological alterity, but also because of their limited modern receptions. I here briefly sketch, from a personal and pragmatic perspective, some issues that might be relevant to the volume’s themes drawn from a literature that is rarely included in European-based literary critical debates; I hope that these issues are not only local to the subject area of Egyptology, but can contribute to wider cross-cultural discussions. This sketch takes into account the academic surroundings for the analysis of ‘frames’, drawing on my own experience in two distinct institutional frames, those of the British Museum and Oxford University.
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