R. B. Parkinson, Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories, Wiley-Blackwell, jan. 2009, 416p.

• ISBN: 978-1-4051-2547-5 Hardcover
• €62.50 

Recension par L. R. Siddall (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.01.34.

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Présentation de l'éditeur:

In Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry, Richard Parkinson explores how ancient Egyptian poems have been read and perceived across the ages.
Presents an innovative and theoretically-informed account of how the most famous ancient Egyptian
poems have been read over 4,000 years
From a leading expert in the interpretation of ancient Egyptian literature
Explores the original experience of ordinary Egyptians enjoying the poems as well as their interpretation
during the Middle Kingdom and up to modern times
Draws on recent discoveries in the British Museum archives to reconstruct the contexts of the poems

R. B. Parkinson is a curator in the Department of Ancient Egypt& Sudan, the British Museum, and regularly teaches in England andGermany. Publications include The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant (1991), the prize-winning Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 BC (1997), and Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt (2002).

Table des matières :

List of Illustrations.

Preface.

Note on Cited Texts.

Chronology.

Part I Performing Poetry.

1. Visitors in Egypt.

2. Reciting Two Poems at Abu (c. 1840 BC).

3. A Performance.

Part II Reading Old Poems.

4. Writing at the Southern City (c. 1780 BC).

5. A Certain Provincial Scribe (c. 1780 BC).

6. A Library at the Southern City (c. 1680 BC).

7. Imperial Classics in the New Kingdom and Beyond (c. 1550–500 BC).

Part III Studying Ancient Texts.

8. Some Modern Readers (AD 1836 on).

9. Among Other Histories.

Appendix: Translations of the 12th-Dynasty Papyri.

Abbreviations.

References.

Index