Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt - A Dark Side to Perfection - R.B. Parkinson
2. General Considerations: Definitions, Genre, Interpretation
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
In this chapter the author looks in more detail at three aspects of reading Middle Kingdom literature: the nature of what is 'literary', the role of genre and the nature of interpretation