Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32306-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 81, 363 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 690 g

Reihe: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

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 narrative literature surviving from the Greco-Roman Period. The many texts discussed include the tales of the Inaros and Setna Cycles, the Myth of the Sun’s Eye, and the Dream of Nectanebo. Jacqueline Jay examines these Demotic tales not only in conjunction with earlier Egyptian literature, but also with the worldwide tradition of orally composed and performed discourse.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jay, Jacqueline E

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literaturen des Alten Orients
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Orality, Literacy, and the Development of Egyptian Narrative Literature
Chapter 2: Going Deeper: The Evidence for Orality
Chapter 3: The Inaros Cycle and the Egyptian “Homeric Question”
Chapter 4: Other Demotic Narratives
Chapter 5: Egyptian Literature and the Greek Novel
Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Jacqueline E. Jay, Ph.D. (2008, University of Chicago), is Associate Professor of History at Eastern Kentucky University. In addition to her work on ancient Egyptian literature, her current research projects focus on the publication of Demotic ostraca and graffiti.