Lingua Aegyptia

Lingua Aegyptia – Studia monographica 2

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Definitely: Egyptian Literature – Proceedings of the symposion "Ancient Egyptian literature: history and forms", Los Angeles, March 24–26, 1995

edited by Gerald Moers

Lingua Aegyptia – Studia monographica 2, Göttingen 1999: Seminar für Ägyptologie und Koptologie

approx. 140 pages, hardcover (out of print)

C O N T E N T S

INTRODUCTION
Definitely? Current trends in Egyptological literary studies
vii–ix
ESSAYS
Jan Assmann
Cultural and Literary texts
1–15
John Baines
Prehistories of literature: performance, fiction, myth
17–41
Gerald Moers
Travel as narrative in Egyptian literature
43–61
Richard B. Parkinson
The dream and the knot: contextualizing Middle Kingdom literature
63–82
COMMENT
Aleida Assmann
The history of the text before the era of literature. Three comments
83–129
SUPPLEMENT
Claudia Suhr
Zum fiktiven Erzähler in der ägyptischen Literatur
91–129
INDICES
Authors, names, passages, texts, topics, Egyptian words
131–139