Author : Raymond Oliver Faulkner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0300099207
Presents annotated translations of papyrus writings and tomb inscriptions from the middle and late periods of ancient Egypt.
Author : David Huckvale
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0786489766
Ancient Egypt has long been a source of fascination in Western popular culture. Movies such as The Mummy (1932, 1959), Biblical epics like The Ten Commandments (1923, 1956), and pharaonic films like Cleopatra (1934, 1963) and The Egyptian (1954) have all recreated the glamour and allure of Egyptian art and civilization for Western audiences. This work traces how these and other films were inspired by writers like Bram Stoker and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and by the art of Victorian painters. Similarly, it shows how the soundtracks to such films belong to a Romantic musical tradition stretching back beyond Verdi and Mozart. Exploring these artistic endeavors addresses the question of whether the fantasy of ancient Egypt represents racist misunderstandings of a far more significant reality, or a way for Western culture to understand itself.
Author : Miriam Lichtheim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,29 MB
Release : 2006-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0520248449
"First published in 1973 - and followed by Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 - this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world's earliest civilizations. Volume III spans the last millennium of Pharaonic civilization, from the tenth century B.C. to the beginning of the Christian era. It features a new foreword by Joseph G. Manning"--Publisher's description.
Author : Mika Waltari
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 2021-11-05T00:00:00Z
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1774642972
First published in the 1940s and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other American novel published that same year, and remains a classic; readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power. It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely forgotten era in the world’s history: an Egypt when pharaohs contended with the near-collapse of history’s greatest empire. This epic tale encompasses the whole of the then-known world, from Babylon to Crete, from Thebes to Jerusalem, while centering around one unforgettable figure: Sinuhe, a man of mysterious origins who rises from the depths of degradation to get close to the Pharoah...
Author : Toby Wilkinson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0141395966
'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered' In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and statues, or inked onto papyri, hieroglyphs give us a unique insight into the life of the Egyptian mind. Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson has freshly translated a rich and diverse range of ancient Egyptian writings into modern English, including tales of shipwreck and wonder, obelisk inscriptions, mortuary spells, funeral hymns, songs, satires and advice on life from a pharaoh to his son. Spanning over two millennia, this is the essential guide to a complex, sophisticated culture. Translated with an Introduction by Toby Wilkinson
Author : Adolf Erman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486287676
Selections include poetry from pyramid texts, morning hymns, instructions in wisdom, meditations, exhortations to schoolboys, love songs, poems to the king, and more. Also included are an outline of Egyptian history, an introduction to Egyptian literature, and extensive footnotes and commentary on the material presented.
Author : Roger Lancelyn Green
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0147519179
Originally published: London: Bodley Head, 1967.
Author : Antonio Loprieno
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 46,3 MB
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9004676716
This volume deals with the development and the characteristics of the literature of Ancient Egypt over a period of more than two millennia, from the monumental origins of autobiography at the end of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2150 BCE) down to the latest literary compositions in Demotic during the Graeco-Roman period (300 BCE-200 CE). This book, the result of an international co-operation among more than twenty scholars, is divided into sections devoted to the definition of literary discourse in Ancient Egypt; the history and genres of these texts, their linguistic and stylistic features; and the image of Ancient Egypt as displayed in later literary traditions of the Mediterranean world - Greek, Coptic, Arabic. With over thirty chapters, this volume provides an interdisciplinary account of current research in one of the methodologically most advanced fields of Egyptology.
Author : Eleanor Dobson
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 2020-07-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781526141880
This edited collection considers representations of ancient Egypt in the literature of the nineteenth-century. It addresses themes such as reanimated mummies, ancient Egyptian mythology and contemporary consumer culture across literary modes ranging from burlesque satire to historical novels, stage performances to Gothic fiction and popular culture to the highbrow. The book illuminates unknown sources of historical significance - including the first illustration of an ambulatory mummy - revising current understandings of the works of canonical writers and grounding its analysis firmly in a contemporary context. The contributors demonstrate the extensive range of cultural interest in ancient Egypt that flourished during Victoria's reign. At the same time, they use ancient Egypt to interrogate 'selfhood' and 'otherness', notions of race, imperialism, religion, gender and sexuality.
Author : R. B. Parkinson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1405125470
In Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry, Richard Parkinson explores how ancient Egyptian poems have been read and perceived across the ages. Presents an innovative and theoretically-informed account of how the most famous ancient Egyptian poems have been read over 4,000 years From a leading expert in the interpretation of ancient Egyptian literature Explores the original experience of ordinary Egyptians enjoying the poems as well as their interpretation during the Middle Kingdom and up to modern times Draws on recent discoveries in the British Museum archives to reconstruct the contexts of the poems
