| The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant: A Reader's Commentary Contributor(s): Parkinson, R. B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3943955109 ISBN-13: 9783943955101 Publisher: Widmaier Verlag OUR PRICE: $77.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval - Literary Collections | African |
| Dewey: 398.210 |
| Series: Lingua Aegyptia Studia Monographica |
| Physical Information: 384 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - North Africa - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The book provides a commentary on one of the best known poems from the Middle Kingdom, The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, from c. 1840 BC. An introduction covers issues of composition and reception in the Middle Kingdom; language and imagery; naturalism, artifice and immediacy; cultural themes; and later and modern receptions. The commentary includes the text in transliteration and translation with a line by line commentary discussing points of philology, lexicography, style, intertext, context, meaning and possible emotional and aesthetic impact. The volume is intended to assist anyone wishing to read the poem in its original language, and is laid out with text and commentary on the same page to enable an integrated experience of reading, following the precedent of other academic commentaries on classic works of world literature. Figures are included to help embed the poem in its material culture and landscape. An index of words is also provided. The book complements the existing text edition of the poem and the new photographic publications of the main manuscripts by the author. |