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Orality and literacy in the Demotic tales /

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 Dem...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jay, Jacqueline E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Series:Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; v. 81.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Orality, literacy, and the development of Egyptian narrative literature
  • Going deeper: the evidence for orality
  • The Inaros cycle and the Egyptian "Homeric question"
  • Other Demotic narratives
  • Egyptian literature and the Greek novel.