Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt - A Dark Side to Perfection - R.B. Parkinson
3. Text and Intertext
Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt - A Dark Side to Perfection - R.B. Parkinson
R.B. Parkinson [+]
University of Oxford
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Professor of Egyptology; Fellow of The Queen’s College and formerly Former Assistant Keeper,Ancient Egyptian pharaonic culture in the Department: Ancient Egypt and Sudan at the British Museum
Description
This chapter looks at the many problems of assessing the oral and written contexts of ancient literature. Topics discussed include: - possible strategies for determining the date of a text - ancient attitudes to text - New Kingdom manuscripts - oral and written prototypes - intertextuality