Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for this link.
Reading Ancient Egyptian Poetry: Among Other Histories
R. B. Parkinson
Wiley
“Parkinson, one of the foremost scholars of ancient Egyptian literature, does much more than provide translations of these well-known narratives: he brings them back to life by showing us how they were part of the lives of everyday ancient Egyptians, reconstructing their entire performative context and giving us a rich picture of the performers, the audiences, and their physical and cultural world. It will be impossible to read these texts in the same way again.” Orly Goldwasser, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
“Parkinson’s new book challenges fashions and overcomes mere theory to confront us with living literary actors: both the ancient authors who composed timeless poems and the later readers who reinterpreted them within their own history. This is a jewel of literary perceptiveness.” Antonio Loprieno, University of Basel.
The above page also has a Table Of Contents, author information and three exerpts from the book.
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