Orality and literacy in the Demotic tales / / by Jacqueline E. Jay.
In Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales , Jacqueline E. Jay extrapolates from the surviving ancient Egyptian written record hints of the oral tradition that must have run alongside it. The monograph’s main focus is the intersection of orality and literacy in the extremely rich corpus of Demotic...
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| Superior document: | Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume 81 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;
Volume 81. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (373 pages). |
| Notes: | Includes indexes. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- 1 Orality, Literacy, and the Development of Egyptian Narrative Literature
- 2 Going Deeper: The Evidence for Orality
- 3 The Inaros Cycle and the Egyptian “Homeric Question”
- 4 Other Demotic Narratives
- 5 Egyptian Literature and the Greek Novel
- Conclusion
- Index of Passages
- General Index.