Reading ancient egyptian poetry : among other histories /
R. B. Parkinson.
- Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
- xxi, 392 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [330]-381) and index.
Performing poetry -- Visitors in egypt -- Reciting two poems at Abu (c. 1840 BC) -- A performance -- Reading old poems -- Writing at the southern city (c. 1780 BC) -- A certain provincial scribe (c. 1780 BC) -- A library at the southern city (c. 1680 BC) -- Old imperial classics in the New Kingdom and beyond (c. 1550-500 BC) -- Studying and interpreting texts -- Some modern readers (AD 1836 on) -- Among other histories -- Appendix : translations of the 12th-Dynasty .papyri