R. B. Parkinson

Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt

A Dark Side to Perfection

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Middle Kingdom (c 1940-1640 BC) was a golden age of Ancient Egyptian writing. This book studies this literary legacy. It reassesses the Middle Kingdom poems' cultural role, drawing on studies of the individual texts. It explores literature's status as a differentiated form of discourse, suggesting what social practices made its role possible.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Egyptology & the Ancient Near East
• Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781845537708
• ISBN-10: 184553770X
• Artikelnr.: 29954584

Autorenporträt

R. B. Parkinson is Assistant Keeper in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum. His previous publications include an edition of The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant (1991); Voices from Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Middle Kingdom Writings(1991); The Tale of Sinuhe and other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640BC (Oxford World Classics 1999); Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories (2009).