Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt - A Dark Side to Perfection - R.B. Parkinson
5. Literature in Culture
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 question of literature and ideology. Specific topics include: - literature as imaginary - literary decorum - fools and enemies - gender and sexuality - responses to death and the divine - generic and topical expectations - programmatic and other models for interpretation - play and mediation