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Narratives of Egypt and the Ancient Near East: literary and linguistic approaches
2011, Peeters, Peeters Publishers
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Table of 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 -- José-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 in magical texts -- Joanna Kyffin ;
Intertextuality in Ancient Egyptian visitors' graffiti? -- Hana Navrátilova ;
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.

Edition Notes

" ... originated in a conference entitled "Framing plots : the grammar of ancient Near Eastern narratives", held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 16th - 17th December 2005"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Leuven
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Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta -- 189, Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta -- 189.

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PJ309 .N377 2011

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xxxvi, 558 p. :
Number of pages
558

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OL25071425M
ISBN 10
9042922079
ISBN 13
9789042922075
LCCN
2011500908
OCLC/WorldCat
707196806

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