Narratives of Egypt and the Ancient Near East. Literary and linguistic approaches

Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 189. Peeters, Leuven, 2011. First edition. In-8, xxxvi & 558 pages. Original cloth with dust-jacket, a fine copy. Contents: 2400-1500 BC. The oral-compositional form of pyramid text discourse / Chris H. Reintges ; Variation in Sumerian myths as a reflection of literary creativity / Bendt Alster ; Hero and villain : analyses of Sargon and Ur-Zababa / Graham Cunningham ; Of spice and mine : the tale of the shipwrecked sailor and Middle Kingdom expedition inscriptions / Roland Enmarch ; Monstrous identities : narrative strategies in Lugale and some reflections on Sumerian religious narrative / Laura Feldt ; Broken icons : the emplotting of master-narratives in the Ancient Egyptian tale of Sinuhe / Gerald Moers ; Text as territory : mapping Sinuhe's shifting loyalties / Jose_-Ramón Pérez-Accino ; Narrative and framing strategies in Old Babylonian Akkadian literature / Joan Goodnick Westenholz -- 1500-500 BC. A true secret of the house of life : prosody, intertext and performance k.in magical texts / Joanna Kyffin ; Intertextuality in Ancient Egyptian visitors' graffiti? / Hana Navra_tilova ; Narrative methodologies in Ancient Egyptian art history : the military reliefs of Ramsses II at Luxor / Aaron Smith ; Examining the "literariness" of Wenamon from the perspective of the grammar of narrative / Jacqueline E. Jay ; Systemic functional grammar and its value for the analysis of plot in Biblical Hebrew narratives : a thematic investigation of the Isaac narrative act (Gen. 25:19-28:9) ; The syntax of narrative forms / Robert S. Kawashima -- 500 BC-AD 2000. Information structure and word order in the Aramaic of the Book of Daniel / Ilya Yakubovich ; The sinews of demonic narrative / John Tait ; The narrative of continuity between the Teaching of Addai and the Acts of Mari : two historical novels? / Ilaria Ramelli ; Rhetorical narratives, tableaux and scenarios : work-notes on narrative poetics in Shenoutean Sahidic Coptic / Ariel Shisha-Halevy ; Masterplots and martyrs : narrative techniques in Bohairic hagiography / Ewa D. Zakrzewska ; The discourse function of independent pronominal subjects in North Eastern Neo-Aramaic -- Afterword. Intertextuality, ideology and culture : trajectories of narrato-logical inquiries in ancient Near and Middle Eastern literatures / Wen-chin Ouyang. Language: English. This book ships from Europe, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (BPF). Relevant subjects: Egypt: Language, Texts & Writing, Levant, Mesopotamia.